Sandra Kasturi is a poet, writer and editor living in Toronto. She is currently working on an animated children's TV series, a novel and another poetry collection. In 2005 she won ARC magazine's annual Poem of the Year award for her poem "Old Men, Smoking". She also received a Bram Stoker Award for her editorial work at the on-line magazine, ChiZine. Sandra has written three poetry chapbooks and has edited the poetry anthology, The Stars As Seen from this Particular Angle of Night. Her work has appeared in various magazines and anthologies, including Prairie Fire, On Spec, several of the Tesseracts series, 2001: A Science Fiction Poetry

Anthology, and Northern Frights 4. Her cultural essay, "Divine Secrets of the Yaga Sisterhood" appeared in the anthology Girls Who Bite Back: Witches, Slayers, Mutants and Freaks. Sandra is a founding member of the Algonquin Square Table poetry workshop and runs her own imprint, Kelp Queen Press, as well as doing time as Co-Publisher/Editor at ChiZine Publications. The Animal Bridegroom is her first full-length poetry collection.