ELINA TAILLON is a queer, neurodiverse writer, M.F.A. candidate in the University of British Columbia’s Creative Writing program and the former managing editor at PRISM international magazine. She also holds a Master’s degree in French literature from the University of Toronto. She has published book reviews in PRISM and Young Adulting, prose in Déraciné and filling Station, and poetry in CV2 and The /tƐmz/ Review. This is her first translation for Arachnide.