Lucas Crawford is the author of three poetry books: Sideshow Concessions (Invisible 2015, winner of the 2015 Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry), The High Line Scavenger Hunt (U of Calgary 2018), and Belated Bris of the Brainsick (Nightwood 2019). These books study queer life, food and fatness, urban space, transgender, jewishness, and mental health in a variety of forms and voices. Lucas believes in the public vitality of poetry: in August 2019, Manhattan’s High Line park launched a poetry-based audio guide for its visitors, based on Lucas’s second book and the work of two other writers. Lucas was born in Halifax, raised in rural Nova Scotia, currently lives in Fredericton, and is Associate Professor of English at UNB.