CHRISTINA SHAH lives in Vancouver and works in heavy industry. Her work was short-listed for 2021’s Ralph Gustafson Prize and was selected for Best Canadian Poetry 2023. She’s one-fifth of Harbour Centre 5. rig veda (Anstruther, 2023) was her first chapbook. if: prey, then: huntress is forthcoming (Nightwood Editions, Fall 2025).

“Steve and I travel to Calgary” from if: prey, then: huntress, Christine Shah, 2025, Nightwood
Editions. Reprinted with permission from the publisher. Find two of Shah’s poems in EVENT 54/1.