Contributor

Laurel Albina is a Canadian-born Palestinian-American writer and trade-union negotiator. She is a 2011 alumna of the Writers in Residence program at Hedgebrook, a 2014 fellow with the Jack Straw Writers Program, and a graduate of The Writer’s Studio at Simon Fraser University. Her poetry has been published in Grey Sparrow Journal and Prairie Fire, and she is the 2016 winner of Briarpatch’s Writing in the Margins poetry contest. She lives in East Vancouver, BC, with her partner and two children.