Tara McGowan-Ross is an urban Mi’kmaq multidisciplinary artist and writer. Her work has been featured in print and online, as well as anthologized in Best Canadian Poetry, Anthologie de la poesie actuelle des femmes au Québec, Letters from Montreal, and in the forthcoming Speech Dries Here on the Tongue: Poetry on Environmental Collapse and Mental Health. She is the author of poetry collections Girth and Scorpion Season, as well as the memoir Nothing Will Be Different, which was a finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Award for nonfiction. She writes the cultural criticism newsletter Theatre of Cruelty on Substack, hosts Drawn & Quarterly’s Indigenous Literatures Book Club, is a storyteller and cultural animator for children, and is a freelance critic of art, music, literature, and theatre. She is primed and ready for your paid writing opportunity. Contact her at girthgirl.ca or taramcgowanross.substack.com