MAUREEN SCOTT HARRIS is a poet and essayist based in Toronto. Her second collection of poems, Drowning Lessons (Pedlar Press), was published in 2004 and that year won the Ontario Trillium Book Award for Poetry. Recent awards include the WildCare Tasmania Nature Writing Prize (2009), The LBJ/Avian Life/Literary Arts Sparrow Prize for Prose (2008), Second Prize in CV2's Two-Day Poem Contest (2007) and First Prize in Prairie Fire's Creative Non-Fiction Contest (2006).