Janette Fecteau is a poet and artist living in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. She is a graduate of the Optional-Residency program in its first (and most radical) cohort. Attending the residencies provided an opportunity to go wildly astray with anarchists like Susan Musgrave, Zsuzsi Gartner, Tom Hansen, Tadzio Richards, and many other excellent sorts. Since then, Janette has been trying to write poems in between teaching Fine Art at StFrancis Xavier University and saving the world for democracy.