Rachel Rose (www.rachelrose.ca) has won awards for her poetry, her fiction, and her non-fiction, including a 2014 Pushcart Prize. She has published poems, short stories and essays in Canada, the U.S., New Zealand and Japan. Her most recent book, Song and Spectacle, won the 2013 Audre Lorde Poetry Prize in the U.S. and the Pat Lowther Award in Canada. She is currently writing a book about police dogs.