Kara Ghobhainn Smith is the author of The Artists of Crow County (Black Moss Press, 2017), co—author of Next to the Ice (Mosaic Press, 2016), Teaching, Learning, Assessing (Mosaic Press, 2007), and the author of the blogspot poetry series, 'The Travelling Professor'. Ghobhainn is Chatham—Kent's 2015—2016 Writer—in—Residence, and Editor of the Journal of Teaching and Learning (JTL), as well as the books' editor for the Canadian Journal of Education (CTL). Her poems have been shortlisted for the 2016 Walrus Poetry Prize and the Polar Expressions Prize.