Debbie Okun Hill was raised in the Selkirk-Interlake area where she edited the local high school newspaper and was later employed as a typesetter/reporter with the Regional News and as a communications specialist with The Winnipeg Art Gallery. Although she currently gardens words full-time in rural southwestern Ontario, she often returns to her Manitoba roots to visit extended family. She has one trade poetry book, four chapbooks, and several poems published in Canadian and American journals and anthologies. Follow her poetic and literary journey on her blog Kites Without Strings at https://okunhill.wordpress.com