Kelly Norah Drukker was born in Montreal and grew up in the Laurentian region of Quebec. She has lived and taught English in Canada, France, Switzerland, Ireland, and the United Kingdom. Her work has appeared in Headlight Anthology, Room Magazine, Poetry New Zealand, enRoute Magazine, carte blanche, The Malahat Review, the Literary Review of Canada, and The Montreal Prize Longlist Anthology. In 2006, her set of long poems “Still Lives” won second prize in the CBC Literary Awards, and an abridged version was aired on CBC Radio’s Between the Covers. Her work has since been featured on CBC Radio’s Cinque à Six and CJAD’s The Irish Show, and she is a frequent guest at several reading series in Montreal. Kelly is a graduate of Concordia University’s Joint Honours English Literature and Creative Writing program, has studied with The Humber School for Writers, and has participated in writing residencies at Sage Hill and The Banff Centre. She is currently enrolled in the Masters program in English and Creative Writing at Concordia University, and is at work on her first collection of poems.