Donna Langevin is a retired ESL teacher living in Toronto, Canada. She is the co-author of four texts in her field. She has published three poetry chapbooks and three previous full-length collections, including The Second Language of Birds and In the Café du Monde, from Hidden Brook Press in 2005 and 2008. Her short play The Man with the Butterfly Hat was performed in 2012 at the Toronto Alumnae Theatre for the New Ideas Festival, and her play Welcome to Nuit Blanche was produced by Act 2 Studio, Ryerson at the 50+ Festival in 2014.