Anna Lee-Popham is a writer, instructor, and editor in Tkaronto. Her debut poetry collection, Empires of the Everyday, was published by McClelland & Stewart in Spring 2024. She holds an MFA Creative Writing from the University of Guelph and is a graduate of Simon Fraser University’s Writer’s Studio and University of Toronto’s School of Continuing Education Creative Writing Certificate, where she received the Janice Colbert Poetry Award. Her writing was first runner-up in PRISM international’s Pacific Poetry Prize, shortlisted for The Fiddlehead Creative Nonfiction Contest and Room‘s Poetry Contest, longlisted for CBC’s nonfiction prize, and published in Arc, Brick, Canthius, Riddle Fence, Room, and others.