Jessica Popeski is a dis/abled opera singer, professor, and intersectional ecofeminist poet. Named one of Tkaronto’s “exceptional up-and-coming writers” by Open Book, she authored Oratorio and The Wrong Place with Anstruther Press. Her collection the problem with having a body was published with Gordon Hill Press, and grenoside is forthcoming in fall 2026. She was raised in Moscow, Russia, and Sheffield, England, by her mother and grandmother, and lives with her pit bull–poodle on land that is covered by Treaty 13 and the Williams Treaties, the traditional territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishinaabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat peoples.