Nyla Matuk was born in Winnipeg in 1967 and now lives in Toronto. She holds an MA in English from McGill University and her first poetry collection, Sumptuary Laws, was published with Véhicule Press in 2012. She was shortlisted for the Walrus Poetry Prize and the Gerald Lampert Award, and her poems have appeared in PN Review, Hazlitt, Best Canadian Poetry in English 2012, The Walrus, Maisonneuve, The Literary Review of Canada, the Best American Poetry blog, and in several other journals and magazines.