Julia Florek Turcan is a poet and performance artist from Atikokan, Ontario, currently residing in Winnipeg. She has performed on local and national stages, including fringe festivals, Canadian Festival of Spoken Word, and the Winnipeg International Writers Festival. Her poetry has appeared in CV2 and Understorey. Julia has just finished reading The Manticore, the second book in the Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies, and is currently reading Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses.