Shazia Hafiz Ramji’s first book, Port of Being (Invisible Publishing), received the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry and was one of CBC’s best Canadian poetry books of 2018. Her fiction and criticism have appeared in The Humber Literary Review, Chicago Review of Books, and Quill & Quire. She will be a writer in residence with Open Book in 2019. She lives on unceded Coast Salish land (Vancouver) where she is at work on a novel.