Dany Gagnon is an artist, game publisher, translator, and writer living in Montréal, Canada. In the last three years, her poetry has appeared in over two dozen publications and anthologies. She was awarded Second Prize for the Polar Expression Poetry Contest 2021 and was long/shortlisted for the Gloucestershire Poetry Society 2021 Open Poetry Competition. In 2023, she won second place for the Mensa Canada Literary Awards (Poetry).