Vancy Kasper is a Toronto poet, author and journalist. Her work includes her first poetry collection, Mother, I’m So Glad You Taught Me How to Dance; the best-selling Young Adult novel, Always Ask For a Transfer and Y.A. novels Escape to Freedom (First Honourable Mention, Canadian Library Association) and Street of Three Directions, also published in Italy. Her poems have been published in Fireweed, Canadian Woman Studies, Quarry, Waves, and Landscape and have been broadcast on Bravo tv, ckln and the University of Toronto radio station.