It’s an honour to be included on this list with these great ladies! Many, many thanks to Room Magazine and Jónína Lynn Kirton, poet and Room collective member.

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“There was a certain comfort in having someone so assured make decisions at such an embarrassing time. Still, it was hard to remember that when her kohkom” – grandmother – “whipped out a piece of twine, wrapped it around her rib cage and passed it to the wide-eyed sales clerk.

‘This big,’ she had said. ‘She was this big.”

My latest Globe and Mail review, Tracey Lindberg’s Birdie.