Jennifer Zilm’s first poetry collection Waiting Room was shortlisted for the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry and selected by the CBC as one of the most anticipated books of 2016. She is also the author of two chapbooks, The whole and broken yellows (Frog Hollow, 2013) and October Notebook (Dancing Girl Press, 2015). Zilm’s writing has been published in numerous journals, including Prism International, Prairie Fire, Geist, Arc, Grain, CV2, Event, The Fiddlehead and The Malahat Review. She lives in East Vancouver where she works in public libraries, detoxes and in social housing.
