Poetry. GALAXY is about a wounded family ("Anger brimming until it overflows / into rage in the dark living room, / his undershirt soaked through / up the back to his collar"), a prairie place ("Ochre River girls / have a one-room school, / walk through fields of wheat, / play in silos, storing grain dust / in their lungs, / later to exhale it / like cloudy fire"), love that is queer and conventional, about longing and loss ("tempus fugit / my father emails, / now or never, / and I can't I don't / wish to speak to my mother. / I don't believe the mere flight of time / is reason enough") and a light shone into dark corners.

Author City: VANCOUVER, BC CAN

Rachel Thompson grew up in Dauphin, Manitoba, located at the foot of Riding Mountain National Park. She went to the University of Winnipeg, where she studied English and International Development Studies. After moving to Vancouver in the early 2000s, she took part in the award-winning Writer's Studio program at Simon Fraser University. She completed GALAXY (Anvil Press, 2011) at the Banff Centre for the Arts Wired Writers program. Her poetry has appeared in journals in Canada and abroad.

Reviews and Other Links
Quentin Mills-Fenn @ Uptown
Ariel Gordon @ Winnipeg Free Press