Living on the unceded lands of the Tsleil Waututh, Musqueam and Squamish peoples, Rita Wong is guided by questions of respect for water, collective health and just relationship. She has written several books of poetry exploring the intersections of life, language, water and land, and co-edited the anthology Downstream: Reimagining Water (2017) with Dorothy Christian. Rita has received the Latner Griffin Writers’ Trust Poetry Prize, the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, and the Asian Canadian Writers Workshop Emerging Writer Award. Her book forage was selected for Canada Reads Poetry in 2011. Her work calls in readers to recognize their responsibilities to the land, the planet, and their communities. She is committed to collective action to address the climate crisis and systemic inequities through an economy of care and solidarity.