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LAURIE D. GRAHAM grew up in Treaty 6 territory, near amiskwac w skahikan (Edmonton, Alberta), and she has lived in Nogojiwanong/Peterborough, in the territory of the Mississauga Anishinaabeg, since 2018, where she is a poet, an editor, and the publisher of Brick magazine, a journal of literary non-fiction based in Toronto. Her first book, Rove, was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award for the best first book of poetry in Canada. Her second book, Settler Education, and her third and most recent book, Fast Commute, were both nominated for Ontario's Trillium Award for Poetry. Her poetry has been shortlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize, won the Thomas Morton Poetry Prize, and appeared in the Best Canadian Poetry anthologies.
""'I miss the lives / I have not lived,' writes Laurie Graham and an unrelenting, tender, brave historical introspection begins. She looks especially for the four great-grandmothers, those homestead lives, and is struck repeatedly by their unknowability which over time has become what she is, the same gait, same brow, same don’t-cross-me streak. The trail to the dead is snow packed and often disappears entirely. This is a moving book of desire, identity, homage and remorse."" —Tim Lilburn, author of The Names
