Tara Borin is a queer, nonbinary settler poet and writer originally from London, Ontario. They have lived in the traditional territory of the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in, Dawson City, Yukon since 2005.

Their debut full-length poetry collection, The Pit, was published by Nightwood Editions in March 2021. Their poetry has been anthologized in the League of Canadian Poets Feminist Caucus in Conversation chapbook (LCP Press, 2022), Resistance: Righteous Rage in the Age of #MeToo (University of Regina Press, 2021), and Best New Poets in Canada 2018 (Quattro Books), as well as published in literary journals online and in print. Tara is the 2022 winner of the BC and Yukon Book Prizes Borealis Prize: Commissioner of Yukon Award for Literary Contribution.

Tara is currently working on a queer gold rush novel and their second poetry collection, which focuses on queer parenting, gender stuff, and life in the North.

When they’re not writing or wrangling their three kids, Tara loves to read, go for river walks with their dog Winston, play Stardew Valley, and obsess over Our Flag Means Death.