Poems from Daniela Elza's sixth collection SCAR/CITY (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2025) were longlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize. Her debut essay collection "Is This an Illness or an Accident?" (Caitlin Press, 2025) delves into the conflicts and contradictions of what it means to belong, to work, and to find home. Daniela lived on three continents before immigrating to Canada in 1999. Her previous poetry collections are "the broken boat" (2020), "the weight of dew" (2012), "milk tooth bane bone" (2013), "the book of it" (2011), and "slow erosions" (2020). Daniela is the recipient of the 2024 Colleen Thibaudeau Award for Outstanding Contribution to Poetry and the 2010 Pandora’s Collective Citizenship Award. When she is not writing or volunteering in her community she works as a creative writing instructor, editor, and mentor on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations, also known as Vancouver.