Canisia Lubrin
Canisia Lubrin is a writer, an editor, and a professor. Her books include Code Noir, The Dyzgraphxst, and The World After Rain. Among her honors are a Windham–Campbell Prize, an OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, a Griffin Poetry Prize, and the 2025 Carol Shields Prize. She was born in Saint Lucia and lives in Whitby, Ontario.