Patrick Grace is a queer author from Vancouver, BC and the Managing Editor for Plenitude Magazine. His poems have been published widely in Canadian magazines, have been finalists for literary contests with CV2 and PRISM international, and in 2020, his poem "A Violence" won The Malahat Review's Open Season Award for Poetry. He is the author of two chapbooks: a blurred wind swirls back for you (Turret House Press, 2023), and Dastardly (Anstruther Press, 2021). His new full-length poetry collection, Deviant, explores queer coming-of-age and intimate partner violence narratives. It is available now from University of Alberta Press. Follow Patrick on IG: @thepoetpatrick.