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, which whisper in a thousand voices the ad copy of snack food brands such as

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, and Hungry Ghost."Harmony in Beach Foam"
/ref> Her work has previously been published in the literary journals ''filling Station'', ''untethered'', ''In/Words Magazine'' and ''The Feathertale Review'', and the chapbooks ''where art'' (2015) and ''Tomorrow, adagio'' (2019).

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21st-century Canadian poets 21st-century Canadian women writers Canadian women poets Writers from Montreal Living people Year of birth missing (living people) {{Canada-poet-stub