LISA ROBERTSON was born in Toronto and for many years lived in Vancouver, where she was a member of the Kootenay School of Writing and Artspeak Gallery. She is the author of The Apothecary, XEclogue, Debbie: An Epic, which was nominated for the Governor General’s Literary Award in 1998, The Weather (awarded the Relit Poetry Prize in 2002), Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture (a Village Voice top book of 2004), and Rousseau’s Boat (which won the 2005 bpNichol Chapbook Award). Her most recent work is The Men. She lives in France.