Jody Baltessen is a poet, writer, and archivist in Winnipeg, Treaty 1 Territory. Her poetry explores place and the archive, drawing on the materiality and layered meanings of landscapes and records, and the history of the archive itself. Her poems have been published in Prairie Fire, Hamilton Arts & Letters (HA&L), Grain, Pangyrus, Poetry Pause (League of Canadian Poets), and The New Quarterly (TNQ). In 2022, she was awarded first place in the Prairie Fire Press/McNally Robinson Booksellers Writing Contest (Poetry), and placed third in Grain’s Short Grain Contest (Poetry). Her poetry suite Invasion Studies was shortlisted for the 2016-2017 Gwendolyn MacEwen/Exile Poetry Prize. Jody is a volunteer book reviewer for Prairie Fire.