MELANIE BRANNAGAN FREDERIKSEN (she/her) is a poet and critic living in Winnipeg, on Treaty One territory. She is the poetry columnist for the Winnipeg Free Press. Her poems have been published in various print and online venues, including Prairie Fire, CV2, Grain, and +doc: a journal of longer poems, and her echapbook, poseidon’s cove, athena’s cave was published by Model Press.