Gabriela Halas immigrated to Canada during the early 1980s, grew up in northern Alberta, lived in Alaska for seven years, and currently resides in B.C. She has published poetry in a variety of literary journals including The Antigonish Review, Cider Press Review, About Place Journal, Prairie Fire, december magazine, The Hopper, among others; fiction in Menagerie Magazine, Room Magazine, Ruminate, The Hopper, subTerrain, among others; nonfiction in Poetry Northwest, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Whitefish Review, Grain, Pilgrimage, and High Country News. She won first prize for her poetry chapbook Bloodwater Tint from Backbone Press (2025). She lives and writes on Ktunaxa Nation land. She holds an MFA from UBC. www.gabrielahalas.org.