Brandi Bird is an Indigiqueer Saulteaux, Cree and Métis writer from Treaty 1 territory. They currently live on Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh & Musqueam land (Burnaby, B.C). Their debut poetry collection, The All + Flesh (Anansi, 2023), won an Indigenous Voices Award and was a finalist for the Gerald Lampert, Raymond Souster and Governor General’s awards. Brandi Bird’s Pitiful revels in the grimy and revolting poetics inherent in the relationships between sexuality, eating disorders and surveillance in our settler-colonial apocalypse. Bird critiques restraint, inaction and self-victimization through their incisive poems that challenge the concept of safety and asks who, if anyone, will be rescued? Pitiful is a confession as much as a riot and Bird understands the worst thing a victim can be is boring. Leanne Dunic is a biracial and bisexual multidisciplinary artist. She is the fiction editor at Tahoma Literary Review, a mentor at Simon Fraser University’s The Writer’s Studio, and the leader of the band The Deep Cove. Her most recent project is a book of lyric prose and photographs entitled, Wet (Talonbooks 2024), which won the Dorothy Livesay Prize. Leanne lives on the unceded and occupied Traditional Territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. Praise for Salt Rich: Dunic paints a portrait that is loving and bittersweet—of two people who harrowingly escape 1950s Yugoslavia for a quiet, simple, stubborn existence living among, and off, the natural world of their adopted homeland.