Born in Saskatoon and raised in Winnipeg, Rhea Tregebov is the author of eight critically acclaimed collections of poetry, most recently Talking to Strangers, released in 2024 by Signal Editions, Vehicule Press. The Montreal Review of Books notes: “To be a flower in Rhea Tregebov’s garden, a bird in her window, a passerby on the street, is to be loved indiscriminately. This generosity of feeling is palpable in every line of Talking to Strangers, the eighth book by an enduring voice in Canadian poetry.” Tregebov’s novel, Rue des Rosiers (2019), addresses the 1982 terrorist attack on a Jewish deli in Paris. Her first novel, The Knife Sharpener’s Bell (2009), follows the reverse immigration of a Depression-era Canadian family to the Soviet Union. She has also published five popular children’s picture books, including Sasha and the Wiggly Tooth and The Big Storm. Tregebov studied English at the University of Manitoba and Cornell, and earned her Master's Degree at Boston University. She lives in Vancouver, where she is an Associate Professor Emerita of Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia.