Paola Ferrante’s work has appeared in The Fiddlehead, Grain, CV2, The New Quarterly and elsewhere. She won The New Quarterly ‘s 2019 Peter Hinchcliffe Award for fiction, Room‘s 2018 prize for fiction and was long listed for Prism International’s 2020 Pacific Spirit Poetry Prize. Her debut full length poetry collection, What to Wear When Surviving A Lion Attack, was published Spring 2019 by Mansfield Press. She is the Poetry Editor at Minola Review and resides in Toronto with her partner Mat and her two pet ferrets.