Catriona Strang is a first-generation settler of mostly Scottish descent, the author of Unfuckable Lardass and five other books of poetry, several co-authored with the late Nancy Shaw, whose selected works, The Gorge, she edited. She frequently collaborates with composer Jacqueline Leggatt and lives on stolen xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ Lands. She has long been involved in the Vancouver writing community and is recovering from decades of caring labour.