Jeanette Lynes grew up in rural southern Ontario. She is the author of seven collections of poetry and three novels, including The Apothecary’s Garden (HarperCollins Canada), which remained on the Toronto Star’s Canadian Fiction Bestsellers’ list for seven weeks in 2022. The director of the MFA in writing program at the University of Saskatchewan, Jeanette Lynes splits her time between Toronto and Saskatoon.