Erin Wilson is from an island community of a couple hundred people. Her poems have appeared in The North, Poetry Ireland Review, The Fiddlehead, B O D Y, Cordite Poetry Review, takahē magazine, Verse Daily, and elsewhere internationally. The title poem from her collection, Blue, won a Pushcart. Her work will appear in Best Canadian Poetry 2026, and she won a Silver Medal with the National Magazine Awards in Canada. She lives on Robinson-Huron Treaty Territory, in Northern Ontario, Canada, the traditional lands of the Anishnawbek. She is most at home amongst trees. She refuses to carry a cell phone.