Winner of the Emily Dickinson Prize for poetry in 2003, Rishma Dunlop is the author of three books of poetry: The Body of My Garden (Mansfield Press, 2002), Reading Like a Girl (Black Moss Press, 2004) and Metropolis (Mansfield Press, 2005). She is co-editor of Red Silk: An Anthology of South Asian Canadian Women Poets (Mansfield Press, 2004) and editor of White Ink: An Anthology of Poems on Mothers (to be published in 2007). She is a professor at York University and poet in residence at the University of British Columbia for 2006–07. She edits Studio, an electronic poetry journal.