Meghan Kemp-Gee is an award-winning poet, teacher, and scriptwriter. She is the author of The Animal in the Room (Coach House Books, 2023), as well as four poetry chapbooks. She co-created the graphic novel One More Year, and co-edited the sports-comics anthology Come Out and Play. She holds degrees from Amherst College and Chapman University, and is now a PhD candidate at the University of New Brunswick, where her dissertation focuses on sports literature. She currently lives in North Vancouver on the unceded traditional territories of the Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations.