Mercedes Eng is the author of Mercenary English, Prison Industrial Complex Explodes, winner of the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, my yt mama, and cop city swagger. Her writing has appeared in Hustling Verse: An Anthology of Sex Workers' Poetry, Jacket 2, Asian American Literary Review, The Capilano Review* and The Abolitionist. She was the Writer-in-Residence and a Shadbolt Fellow at Simon Fraser University and recently co-curated her first exhibition with Keimi Nakashima-Ochoa, Inside/Out: the art show my dad never had* Mercedes teaches at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, where she organizes the On Edge reading series.