KASIA VAN SCHAIK is the author of the linked story collection We Have Never Lived on Earth, which explores what it means to come of age in a time of ecological crisis, and which was a finalist for the 2022 Concordia University First Book Prize. Her writing has appeared in the LA Review of Books, CBC Books, The Rumpus, Maisonneuve Magazine, Electric Literature, and the Best Canadian Poetry, and her eco-poetry chapbook, Sea Burial Laws According to Country, was turned into a concerto and performed by the Montreal Music Lab in 2019. Kasia holds a PhD from Ï㽶ÊÓƵ where her thesis won the 2022 Arts Insights Award. A postdoctoral fellow at Concordia University, Kasia is currently working on a book of cultural criticism entitled Women Among Monuments and is also co-editing an essay collection, Shelter in Text, which interrogates the relationship between the physical and textual spaces we inhabit. Kasia lives in Tiohti:áke (Montreal). In 2021, Kasia served as a QWF CBC writer-in-residence.