Garth Martens is the author of Prologue for the Age of Consequence (House of Anansi) and the chapbook Remediation (JackPine Press). For his first book, he was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award in Poetry, and for a selection of poems from that manuscript, he won the Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers. In 2017, he co-founded Palabra Flamenco, a literary flamenco ensemble, as its producer and principal poet. He also produces Dark Sounds, a flamenco series on death, grief, and the climate crisis, featuring poet Jan Zwicky, dancer Denise Yeo, and guitarist Gareth Owen. For Alma de España Flamenco Dance Company, he performed his poetry in Pasajes, an international production. His work appears in Dark Mountain Project, Poetry Ireland, Hazlitt, This Magazine, Vallum, Fiddlehead, Grain, PRISM, Geist, Best Canadian Poetry, and 29 Mennonite Poets. He’s a contributing editor for Arc Poetry Magazine and a former member of The Malahat Review’s editorial board. He lives in Victoria, BC.