Canisia Lubrin is the author of five books, including The Dyzgraphxst, The World After Rain (M&S, 2025), and her fiction debut, Code Noir (Knopf, 2024), which contains drawings by visual artist Torkwase Dyson. Her work has received a 2021 Windham-Campbell Prize, the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, and the Griffin Poetry Prize, among others. She is and assistant professor and coordinator of the University of Guelph Creative Writing MFA in the School of English & Theatre Studies.