KARIS SHEARER (she/her/hers) is an Associate Professor in English & Cultural Studies and Principal's Research Chair (Tier 2) at UBC (Oknagan), where her research and teaching focus on literary audio, the literary event, the digital archive, book history, and women’s labour within poetry communities. She is the editor of (WLUP 2008), and has published essays on Sina Queyras’s feminist blog Lemonhound, George Bowering’s little magazine Imago, and Michael Ondaatje’s The Long Poem Anthology. She is the author of a chapter on gendered labour and the Vancouver Poetry Conference in the book (McGill-Queens UP, 2020) and is co-editor with Deanna Fong of (Talonbooks, 2020). She also directs the CFI-funded , and is a Governing Board member and lead UBCO Researcher for the .