Canisia Lubrin is a writer, editor, and critic. Her books are Voodoo Hypothesis (2017), The Dyzgraphxst (2020), and Code Noir (Knopf, 2023). In 2021, Lubrin won the Griffin Poetry Prize, OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, Derek Walcott Prize, the Windham-Campbell Prize in poetry, among others. Lubrin is inaugural Shaftesbury WIR at Victoria College, University of Toronto, Assistant Professor and incoming MFA in Creative Writing Coordinator in the School of English & Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph, where she completed her MFA in Creative Writing.