Tanis MacDonald is the author of three books of poetry including Rue The Day (Turnstone Press, 2008), as well as the non-fiction The Daughter’s Way (WLUP, 2012). Her fourth collection, Mobile, is forthcoming from Book*hug. Her instructional memoir, Out of Line: Daring to be an Artist Outside the Big City, was published by Wolsak and Wynn in 2018. She is associate professor at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario.