Marita Dachsel is the author of Glossolalia and All Things Said & Done. Her work has appeared in many literary journals and anthologies. Her poetry has been shortlisted for the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry, the Acorn-Plantos Award for People's Poetry, and the ReLit Award. Her play Initiation Trilogy was nominated for both a Jessie Richardson Theatre Award for Outstanding Original Script and the Critics' Choice Innovation Award. She lives with her family on Lekwungen territory in Victoria, British Columbia.

# 1 on Edmonton Fiction Bestsellers list, April 3, 2019

"Dachsel's poems also offer a kind of spiritual clarity, navigating a sequence of uncertainties with a careful confidence..." -- Rob Mclennan -- 20190911

"...strike a balance between the potent dramas of family life and the sense that all can be lost in a moment of forgetfulness, or the ever-ready subsuming of mortality.... The balance is maintained, but like a teacup on the tip of a pencil, and the value of the collection rests in our recognition that we, too, search for that balance." [Full review at https://ormsbyreview.com/2020/03/20/775-carroll-dachsel-thornton/] -- John Carroll -- The Ormsby Review, 20200320

"These [three] fine collections focus on loss... Wisdom of both the aging and the ages shines through. Wistfully, they explore growing older and what comes next--or doesn't.... Dachsel's more ribald images... are jolting and rich." -- Crystal Hurdle -- Canadian Literature, 20200212