Lisa Richter is the author of the poetry collection Closer to Where We Began (Tightrope Books, 2017), and a chapbook, Intertextual. Her poetry and non-fiction have appeared in a number of periodicals and anthologies, including The New Quarterly, The Malahat Review, Exile, The Literary Review of Canada, The Puritan, and Locations of Grief: An Emotional Geography (Wolsak and Wynn, 2020). She lives, writes, and works as an English as a Second Language teacher in Toronto.