Bren Simmers is the author of four books: If, When (2021), Pivot Point (2019), Night Gears (2010) and Hastings-Sunrise (2015), which was a finalist for the City of Vancouver Book Award. Her work has won the CBC Poetry Prize, The Malahat Review Long Poem Prize and the Arc Poem of the Year Award. She lives on Epekwitk/Prince Edward Island.