Dina Del Bucchia is the author of the short-story collection Don’t Tell Me What to Do and of four collections of poetry: Coping with Emotions and Otters, Blind Items, Rom Com written with Daniel Zomparelli and It’s a Big Deal! She is a senior editor of Poetry Is Dead magazine, the artistic director of the Real Vancouver Writers’ Series, and a co-host of the podcast Can’t Lit with Jen Sookfong Lee. You can find out more about her at dinadelbucchia.com