OANA AVASILICHIOAEI is a Montreal-based poet, translator, and artist. She is the author of many books, including Expeditions of a Chimaera (with Erín Moure; 2009), We, Beasts (2012; winner of the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry) and Limbinal (2015). Previous translations include Suzanne Leblanc's The Thought House of Philippa (co-translated with Ingrid Pam Dick; 2015), Catherine Lalonde’s The Faerie Devouring (winner of the 2018 Cole Foundation Prize for Translation), three books by Bertrand Laverdure, including Universal Bureau of Copyrights (finalist for the 2015 ReLit Award, Readopolis (winner of the 2017 Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation), and The Neptune Room (finalist for the 2020 Governor General's Literary Award for Translation).