ERÍN MOURE is a Canadian poet and translator of poetry. Three-time finalist for the Griffin Prize, and winner of the Governor General's Award for poetry, her 18 books include the poetry of Furious, O Cidadán, Little Theatres, O Resplandor, The Unmemntioable, and Kapusta, and the essays of My Beloved Wager. She has translated or cotranslated 16 books of poetry, and holds two honorary doctorates, from Brandon University (Canada) and the University of Vigo (Spain). She first crossed the Canada-US border from Alberta in 1964 to eat a July 4th hot dog at a community picnic in Great Falls, Montana, and has been border crossing ever since. Moure lives in Montreal. SHANNON MAGUIRE is an assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of Calgary. The author of two collections of poetry, fur(l) parachute and Myrmurs: An Exploded Sestina, she has been a finalist for the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry and the bpNichol Chapbook Award.