Shannon Maguire is a poet and playwright. She is the co-cultivator of AvantGarden, an experimental text and sound based performance series in Toronto. "Fur(l) Parachute" was shortlisted for the 2011 Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry. Her chapbook Vowel Wolves & Other Knots (above/ground 2011) features a small selection from that work. Her poems have also appeared in CV2, ditch, Gulch: An Assemblage of Poetry and Prose (Tightrope), among other places. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph and is working on an MA in text/community/discourse at Brock University.