Dianthe West (she/they) is a poet and fiction author with a career spanning higher ed, art writing, music performance, and equestrian sports. Their work has appeared in HWA Poetry Showcase IX, Decapitate magazine, and Whispers From Beyond from Crystal Lake Publishing. Dianthe holds an MA in visual culture and lectured in art history for fourteen years in the US and Canada. They completed the editing certificate at Simon Fraser University and currently work as a freelance writer and editor. Dianthe lives with their family, plants, four-legged familiars, hundreds … scores of grazing bunnies, (and at least one fox), in Guelph, Ontario.