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Whitney French (she/her) is a writer, multidisciplinary artist, and publisher. She is the editor of the award-winning anthology Black Writers Matter (University of Regina, 2019), the winner of the Saskatchewan Book Award for Publishing 2020. She also is the editor of Griot: Six Writers Sojourn into the Dark (Penguin Random House Canada, 2022) Whitney French is also a certified arts educator the co-founder and publisher of Hush Harbour, the only Black queer feminist press in Canada. Currently, she lives in Toronto.