Yvonne Blomer’s first book, A Broken Mirror, Fallen Leaf, was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, and her poems have won and been shortlisted for many awards in Canada and the UK since. An excerpt of Death of Persephone won the Gwendolyn MacEwen poetry prize in 2021 with Exile Editions. The Last Show on Earth, her fourth book of poems, came out with Caitlin Press in 2022 and in the fall of 2022 Palimpsest Press released Book of Places: 10th Anniversary Edition. Yvonne’s other poetry books include As if a Raven (Palimpsest Press, 2015), and the anthologies Hologram: Homage to P.K. Page, Refugium: Poems for the Pacific and Sweet Water: Poems for the Watersheds (Caitlin Press). Sugar Ride: Cycling from Hanoi to Kuala Lumpur (Palimpsest Press, 2017) is her memoir exploring body, time, and travel. Yvonne is a past poet laureate of Victoria, BC, and the past Artistic Director of the weekly reading series Planet Earth Poetry. She was poet-in-residence with Arc Poetry Magazine and currently teaches poetry online to incredible students from across North America. She lives on the traditional territories of the Lək̓ʷəŋən (Lekwungen) people.​