Chris Masson is a poet, performer, and educator currently based in Montreal, where he organizes poetry slams and teaches poetry workshops to youth with the Throw Poetry Collective and the Quebec Writers Federation Writers in the Community program. He has been featured on stages across the continent, and toured his one-man play “Pathos, Punchlines, and Painkillers” to various festivals. His work appears in the love letter anthology Where the Nights Are Twice As Long (Goose Lane 2015).