Sandra Ridley is the author of four books of poetry: Fallout, Post-Apothecary, The Counting House and Silvija (BookThug 2016). She has taught poetry at Carleton University and has mentored poets through Ottawa's Supportive Housing and Mental Health Services "œFootprints to Recovery" program for people living with mental illness. In 2015, she was nominated for the KM Hunter Artist Award for Literature.