Fern DiRossi-Bird is an emerging writer, expressive-arts therapist, grief worker and magic weaver reclaiming the tradition of Italian folk magic.

Their poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Canthius, Beyond the Veil Press, LBRNTH, CV2, Room and elsewhere. They are currently working on their first full-length poetry manuscript, which explores grief(s), queerness and dreams.

They are also working on a multi-disciplinary body of work that navigates the intersection of superstition, obsessive–compulsive disorder and hoarding.

They live with their partner and three cats Burt, Etta and Babydoll on the unceded ancestral lands of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh peoples in so-called Burnaby, British Columbia.

Last year, DiRossi-Bird was named a Brooklyn Poets Fellow for study in Carlie Hoffman’s “Shaping Memory” workshop.