Anna Swanson

Anna Swanson studied creative writing at the University of Victoria and at Memorial University of Newfoundland. Her poetry has appeared in numerous literary journals, as well as in the anthology The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2008.  She has paid the rent by planning festivals, selling books, serving drinks, making maps, walking on stilts, bowling with teenagers, writing press releases and watching for forest fires. She now lives in Vancouver and works as a children’s librarian. The Nights Also is her first collection of poetry.