She lived for years at Main and 49th and then at Main and 19th, so reading at The Cottage Bistro takes her back to the heart of her old neighbourhood. In her debut collection, Frequent, small loads of laundry (Mother Tongue 2017) she sorts through the banal and the absurd, the orderly and the disastrous and writes poems in which a twist, a provocation, or a frisson of revulsion arenot unwelcome. Her work has appeared the The Malahat Review, Rattle, Room, Harvard Design Magazine and in the anthologies Rocksalt: An Anthology of Contemporary BC Poetry (Mother Tongue), Poems from Planet Earth (Leaf Press), Poet to Poet (Guernica Editions), Force Field: 77 Women Poets of BC (Mother Tongue), and recently in Erotic Haiku: Of Skin on Skin (Black Moss Press). She’ll be back in Vancouver on September 24 to read at Word Vancouver. reganz.com