ANNA SWANSON is a queer writer, librarian and poetry editor living in St. John’s, Ktaqmkuk/Newfoundland. She is the author of The Garbage Poems (Brick Books, 2025) and The Nights Also (Tightrope, 2010) which won a Lamba Literary Award and the Gerald Lampert Award. Her special interests include collective liberation and wild swimming in all seasons.