Jody Baltessen is a Canadian poet/archivist and writer. Her work is forthcoming in Hamilton Arts and Letters (HA&L), has appeared in Poetry Pause (League of Canadian Poets), Prairie Fire, and The New Quarterly (TNQ), and has been shortlisted for the Gwendolyn MacEwen/Exile Poetry Prize. Her book reviews can be found online at: www.prairiefire.ca/?s=Baltessen