Sarah Dowling is the author of DOWN, and Security Posture, which received the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry. A literary critic as well as a poet, Sarah’s first scholarly book, Translingual Poetics: Writing Personhood under Settler Colonialism, was a finalist for the American Studies Association’s Lora Romero Prize. Sarah is an assistant professor in the Centre for Comparative Literature and Victoria College at the University of Toronto.