Manahil Bandukwala is a writer and visual artist originally from Pakistan and now settled in Canada. She works as Coordinating Editor for Arc Poetry Magazine, and is Digital Content Editor for Canthius. She is the author of many chapbooks, most recently Orbital Cultivation (Collusion 2021, with Liam Burke) and encounter (Rahila's Ghost Press 2022, with Nimra Bandukwala). She is a member of Ottawa-based collaborative writing group VII. Her debut poetry collection is MONUMENT (Brick Books).