Bren Simmers is the author of four poetry collections and a wilderness memoir. She is the winner of the Latner Griffin Writers’ Trust Poetry Prize, the CBC Poetry Prize and The Malahat Review Long Poem Prize. Her latest book, The Work (Gaspereau Press, 2024), won the Pat Lowther Memorial Award and was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Awards and the J.M. Abraham Atlantic Poetry Award. She lives on Epekwitk/PEI where she is the current Poet Laureate.