Erín Moure (a.k.a. Erin Mouré, Eirin Moure, Elisa Sampedrin) is a Montreal-based poet, translator and essayist, whose distinctions include a Governor’s General Award (and four further nominations for poetry plus one as co-translator of poetry from French), a Pat Lowther Memorial Award, and being shortlisted on three occasions for the Griffin Poetry Prize. Her recent publications encompass a poetry collection, The Unmentionable (2012); a work of creative non-fiction, Insecession, published in one volume with her translation from Galician of Chus Pato’s Secesión (2014); and a book of literary criticism, My Beloved Wager: Essays from a Writing Practice (2009). Prolific across a range of forms and genres, a frequent collaborator and an in-demand performer of her own work, Erín is known for her daring sleights of language and love of a steep challenge.

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