Conyer Clayton is an award-winning writer, editor, musician, and arts educator whose multi-genre work often explores grief, disability, the climate crisis, and gendered violence through a surrealist lens. She is the author of But the sun, and the ships, and the fish, and the waves. (A Feed Dog Book, Anvil Press), We Shed Our Skin Like Dynamite (Guernica Editions, 2020, Winner of the 2021 Ottawa Book Award), and many solo and collaborative chapbooks.