Danielle LaFrance is a poet, librarian, and independent scholar who lives, rents, and works on the stolen lands of the xmkym, Swxwú7mesh, and slilwta peoples. Following the would-be poetics mapped in her last book JUST LIKE I LIKE IT (Talonbooks, 2019), she arrives at reading and writing from a position knowing illusions are destroyed and that new fantasies are required for keeping on. Her second book, Friendly + Fire (Talonbooks, 2016), was described as "a capella pornography"; her first book, species being , was published by Capilano University Editions in 2010. Chapbooks include Tentacle Rasa (Asterion Press 2020) and Pink Slip (Standard Ink & Copy Press 2013). Her poetry and critical writing have appeared in the Capilano Review , LESTE , ASAP/Journal, and numerous other journals and magazines, some of which can be accessed at daniellelafrance.com.