Anne F. Walker founded Redwood Coast Press, and edited the anthology of poetry and poetic prose bit to eat place with Andrea Adolph. After earning a BFA from York University’s Creative Writing Program in Toronto, she worked briefly in film, subsequently designing a program in Urban Poetics at the University of Berkeley. Her poetry has been granted awards from the Canada Council, the Ontario Arts Council, the Ontario Film Development Cooperation, and the bpNichol Memorial Fund. Twice her work won the University of California’s Eisner Award for literature, and a selection of poetry from The Exit Show was shortlisted for the K.M. Hunter Artist Award. Her previous books of poetry include Into the Peculiar Dark, Pregnant Poems, and Six Months Rent. A Canadian / American dual national, she divides her time between Berkeley and Toronto.