Dina Del Bucchia is the author of the short-story collection Don't Tell Me What to Do and of three collections of poetry: Coping with Emotions and Otters, Blind Items, and Rom Com, the latter written with Daniel Zomparelli. She is an editor of Poetry Is Dead magazine, the artistic director of the Real Vancouver Writers' Series, and a co-host of the podcast Can't Lit with Jen Sookfong Lee. An otter and dress enthusiast, she lives on the unceded territories of the x¿m¿¿k¿¿y¿¿m (Musqueam), S¿wx¿wú7mesh (Squamish), and s¿l¿ilw¿tä¿ (Tsleil-Waututh) First Nations (Vancouver, British Columbia).