Jennifer Delisle is the author of The Newfoundland Diaspora: Mapping the Literature of Out-Migration (WLUP 2013) as well as numerous articles on Canadian literature, post-immigrant generations, and nostalgia. Her poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction has appeared in magazines and anthologies across North America, and her book of poetry and family memoir, The Bosun Chair, is forthcoming with NeWest Press. She completed her PhD in English at UBC, and has held postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Alberta and McMaster. She is now the Lead Instructional Designer for Yardstick, an eLearning development company.