Dianne Chisholm is a writer, photographer, alpinist, Arctic traveler and Professor Emeritus of English (D.Phil., Oxford). She researches modernist and contemporary women's writing, queer cultural studies and the environmental humanities and is the author of Queer Constellations: Subcultural Space in the Wake of the City (University of Minnesota Press, 2005) and H.D.'s Freudian Poetics: Psychoanalysis in Translation (Cornell University Press, 1992). Her debut book of innovative poetic prose, The Waking Glacier, A High Arctic Lyric, will be published by the University of Alberta Press. When not at her desk in Amiskwacîwâskahikan (Edmonton, Treaty 6 territory), she's at home in the Rocky Mountains or abroad in Nordic ice lands.