Margaret Christakos is Publishing Editor and a member of the Editorial Group of Influency Salon. She has published eight collections of poetry and a novel, and has been active in the Toronto writing community since the late 1980s. Recent collections are Welling (Your Scrivener), What Stirs and Sooner (both Coach House Books). She has been a nominee for the Ontario Trillium Book Award and The Pat Lowther Memorial Award (twice), and a winner of the ReLit Award for Poetry and the Bliss Carman Poetry Award. Born and raised in Sudbury, Ontario, she lives in Toronto, where she parents, writes, and teaches within the Creative Writing Program at the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies.