Lisa Richter lives, writes and teaches English as a second language in Toronto. Her poetry has appeared in the Malahat Review, the Puritan, Canthius, (parenthetical) and the Toronto Quarterly, among others. She was longlisted for the 2015 CBC Poetry Prize, and her chapbook, Intertextual, was published by Pooka Press in 2010. Her first full-length collection, Closer to Where We Began, is now available from Tightrope Books.