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Dessa Bayrock

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Dessa Bayrock lives in Ottawa with two cats & a variety of succulents, one of which occasionally blooms. She used to unfold paper for a living at Library and Archives Canada and is currently a PhD candidate in English Literature at Carleton University, where she studies literary awards and the production of cultural value. Her poems have appeared in PRISM, Room, Poetry Is Dead, and elsewhere and her work has recently won Arc Poetry Magazine’s Diana Brebner Prize & been shortlisted for the Metatron Prize for Rising Authors. She is the editor of post ghost press. Her previous chapbooks include IS IT ABOUT RUINS AND GHOSTS? (Ghost City Press, 2019) and The Trick to Feeling Safe at Home (with Katie Stobbart; Coven Editions, 2020).

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Is It About Ruins and Ghosts?

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