Deanna Young is the author of The Still Before a Storm (Moonstone Press, 1984) and Drunkard’s Path (Gaspereau Press, 2001). Brick Books will publish House Dreams, her third collection of poems, in 2014. Her work has appeared recently in ARC and The Malhat Review, and in 2013 won the Grand Prize in the PRISM International Poetry Contest. She lives in Ottawa, where she is artistic co-director of the Tree Reading Series.