Canisia Lubrin is a poet, writer, editor and professor. The author of Code Noir, The Dyzgraphxst, Bright Machine (2026), and The World After Rain (2025), Lubrin is the recipient of a Windham-Campbell Literature Prize, OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, Griffin Poetry Prize, Derek Walcott Prize, and Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, Danuta Gleed Award, among other distinctions. She is associate professor and coordinator of the University of Guelph’s Creative Writing MFA.