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Dessa Bayrock

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Dessa Bayrock lives in Ottawa on the unceded territory of the Anishnaabeg and Algonquin peoples. She has a doctorate in Canadian literature and prizing and currently teaches English and the University of Ottawa. She was the editor of post ghost press for three years, has been on the editorial board or slush reader roster for half a dozen Canadian literature magazines, and has published three chapbooks. She is currently working on a Canada Council-funded collection of poems responding to the research question: what if we live in a simulation? You can find her, or at least more about her, at dessabayrock.com.

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Is It About Ruins and Ghosts?

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