Jaimie Franchi is a writer, educator, gardener, and maker. She is the creator of All Kinds of Neighbours, a children’s urban nature storytelling series supported by a grant from Canada Council for the Arts and CBC Radio Canada. Her children’s picture book text, Melt, was shortlisted for the 2022 CANSCAIP Writing for Children Competition. Her writing for adults has appeared in print in the literary journal filling Station, in the poetry anthology Poems for the Solstice, in Kitchen Table Magazine, in the journal Farmerish and the former Athens Free Press. She’s currently writing a picture book text with the support of a literary arts grant from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec. She earned an MA in literature from the University of Georgia in 2003 and taught college English in Georgia and California. After a break of many years, she has recently returned to teaching, this time online. She lives with her family in Montreal, Quebec.