Lisa Pike Fiorindi grew up in Windsor, Ontario. She has her MA in English and Creative Writing and recently completed her PhD in Comparative Literature and Women & Gender Studies at the University of Toronto where she now teaches. Her writing has appeared in such places as Re: Generations: Canadian Women Poets in Conversation (Black Moss Press), the Pocket Canon Series (Misprints Press Toronto), ditch, the poetry that matters, and Contemporary Verse 2.