Vancouver's 6th Poet Laureate, Fiona Tinwei Lam has authored three poetry collections and a children’s book. Her poems have been featured in Best Canadian Poetry (2010, 2017 anniversary edition, and 2020) and thrice with BC’s Poetry in Transit, as well as in several award-winning poetry videos made in collaboration with filmmakers that have screened at festivals internationally. She edited The Bright Well: Contemporary Canadian Poems about Facing Cancer, and co-edited two nonfiction anthologies. Shortlisted for the City of Vancouver Book Prize and other awards, her work appears in over 40 anthologies. She teaches creative writing at SFU Continuing Studies.

A. F. Moritz’s most recent books of poems are The Garden: a poem and an essay (2021), As Far As You Know (2020), The Sparrow: Selected Poems (2018), and a selection of poems in Greek translation, also entitled The Sparrow (2021). His poetry has received recognitions including the Griffin Poetry Prize, the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Award in Literature of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, selection to the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets, the Ingram Merrill Fellowship, the Beth Hokin Prize of Poetry magazine, the ReLit Award, the Raymond Souster Award of the League of Canadian Poets, among others. Three of his books have been finalists for the Governor General’s Award. He is presently Poet Laureate of the City of Toronto.

Carol Rose GoldenEagle (previously Carol Daniels) is Cree/Dene with roots in Sandy Bay, northern Saskatchewan. She is a published novelist, poet, playwright, visual artist, and musician. She is the author of the award-winning novel Bearskin Diary (2015), Hiraeth, a book of poetry (2018), Bone Black (2019), and Narrows of Fear (2020). Carol has also written poems including "Qu'Appelle" (2021), "DNA" (2019) and essays including "Joy & heartbreak: Life as an Indigenous mother" (2021), "Sanctuary" (2020), and a "Personal Essay" (2016). Carol was named as the 2021-2023 Saskatchewan Poet Laureate. As a visual artist, her work has been exhibited in galleries across Saskatchewan and Northern Canada. As a musician, a CD of women's drum songs, in which Carol is featured, was recently nominated for a Prairie Music Award. Before pursuing her art on a full-time basis, Carol worked as a journalist for more than 30 years in television and radio at APTN, CTV, and CBC. She lives in Regina Beach with her puppy dog, Saffy and her kitty cat, Pumpkin and enjoys and loves visiting with her three children, Jackson, Nahanni, and Daniel.

Greg Santos is a poet, editor, and educator. He is the author of Ghost Face (2020) and several other poetry collections. He holds an MFA in creative writing from The New School. He regularly teaches creative writing workshops in partnership with various organizations. He is the Editor in Chief of the Quebec Writers' Federation's online literary journal, carte blanche. Santos lives in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal with his family.

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Poetry and Place: In Conversation with Poets Laureate