TERESE MASON PIERRE is a writer and editor whose work has appeared in The Walrus, ROOM, Brick, Quill & Quire, Uncanny, and Fantasy Magazine, among others. Her work has been a finalist for the bpNichol Chapbook Award, Best of the Net, the Ignyte Award, and the Aurora Award. She is a winner of the Writers’ Trust Journey Prize, and was named a Writers’ Trust Rising Star in 2023. She is the author of the chapbooks Surface Area (Anstruther Press, 2019), and Manifest (Gap Riot Press, 2020). Terese lives and works in Toronto, Canada.