Enigma by Andrea Thompson (grades 7-9)

Andrea Thompson has been publishing and performing her work for over twenty-five years. Thompson is co-author of Other Tongues: Mixed-Race Women Speak Out, and author of the novel Over Our Heads. Thompson teaches through CAMH and University of Toronto’s School of Continuing Studies. She is an editor at Brick Books and Artistic Director of Brick's online spoken word showcase, Brickyard. Thompson’s work was featured in the anthology Best Canadian Poetry: 2020, and she is the recipient of the 2021 Pavlick Poetry Prize. Her collection, A Selected History of Soul Speak, was published by Frontenac House in the fall of 2021.