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Rachel McCrum is from Northern Ireland and lives in Montréal. She is curator of the Atwater Poetry Project and co-Director (with Ian Ferrier) of the Mile End Poets’ Festival. In Scotland, where she lived for several years, she was co-founder of Stewed Rhubarb Press (Callum MacDonald Award, 2012) and the first BBC Scotland Poet-in-Residence. Her first collection The First Blast to Awaken Women Degenerate (Stewed Rhubarb Press, 2018) is published in a bilingual edition as Le premier coup de clairon pour réveiller les femmes immorales (Mémoire d’encrier, 2020).