Photo by: Chloe Krause Pictured behind Del Bucchia is the mural "Rediscovering Joy" created by Victoria Sieczka, Lisa Taniguchi, and Otilia Sabina, 2021

Dina Del Bucchia

Dina Del Bucchia is the author of the short-story collection Don’t Tell Me What to Do and of three collections of poetry: Coping with Emotions and Otters, Blind Items, and Rom Com, the latter written with Daniel Zomparelli. She is an editor of Poetry Is Dead magazine, the artistic director of the Real Vancouver Writers’ Series, and a co-host of the podcast Can’t Lit with Jen Sookfong Lee. An otter and dress enthusiast, she lives on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) First Nations (Vancouver, British Columbia). You can find out more about her at: dinadelbucchia.com.

Coping with Emotions and Otters

Rom Com