Dina Del Bucchia is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently, You’re Gonna Love This (Talonbooks, 2024). In the somewhat recent past she was the Artistic Director of the Real Vancouver Writers' Series, an editor of Poetry is Dead magazine and co-host of Can’t Lit, a podcast on Canadian literature and culture, with Jen Sookfong Lee. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from UBC and over the past fifteen years has taught a variety of creative writing workshops and classes to people from the age of six to the highest age you can think of.