Alessandra NaccaratoAlessandra Naccarato is the recipient of the 2015 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers and the winner of the 2017 CBC Poetry Prize. A two-time finalist for Arc Magazine's Poem of Year and the Edna Steabler Personal Essay Prize, sheholds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia, and has toured nationally and internationally as a spoken word artist. She is based between Toronto, Ontario and Salt Spring Island, British Columbia. RE-ORIGIN OF SPECIES (Book*hug, 2019) is her debut poetry collection. Read More Read Less