Jan Zwicky has published five collections of poetry, including ROBINSON'S CROSSING (Brick Books, 2004) and SONGS FOR RELINQUISHING THE EARTH (Brick Books, 1998), which won the Governor General's Award for Poetry in 1999. Zwicky is a Professor Emerita in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Victoria, where she taught both philosophy and interdisciplinary humanities courses from 1996 until 2009.