Shawna Lemay is the author of five books of poetry, All the God-Sized Fruit (McGill-Queen's University Press), Against Paradise (McClelland & Stewart), Still (self-published), Blue Feast (NeWest Press), and the forthcoming Red Velvet Forest (The Muses' Company). She has a B.A. in Honors English and an M.A. in English from the University of Alberta. All the God-Sized Fruit won both the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, and the Stephan G. Stephansson Award. Her blog is Capacious Hold-All. She lives in Edmonton with Robert Lemay, a visual artist, and their daughter Chloe.