Amanda Merpaw (she/her) is a poet, artist, researcher, and educator. Her writing has appeared in CV2, Grain, Literary Review of Canada, The Maynard, Prairie Fire, PRISM International, and Room. Her first chapbook, Put the Ghosts Down Between Us, was released in September 2021 by Anstruther Press. She is an artist-educator with Cultivate Arts Collective, where she devises performance projects, creates interactive installations, and engages in arts education with and for young people. Amanda is currently a PhD student at the University of Toronto.