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Margo LaPierre is a Canadian freelance editor and author of Washing Off the Raccoon Eyes (Guernica Editions, 2017). She is newsletter editor of Arc Poetry Magazine and a member of poetry collective VII, who jointly authored Towers (Collusion Books, 2021) and Holy Disorder of Being (Gap Riot Press, 2022). She won the 2021 Room Magazine Poetry Award and the 2020 subTerrain Lush Triumphant Fiction Award. She was shortlisted in the 2021 Fiddlehead Creative Nonfiction Contest and was a finalist in the 2020 TWUC Short Prose Competition, the 2020 Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse Award, and the 2021 Short Grain Contest for Fiction. Her multi-genre work has been published in the /temz/ Review, Room, Arc, filling Station, CAROUSEL, PRISM International, carte blanche and others. She is completing her MFA in Creative Writing at UBC. Find her on Twitter @margolapierre.