Myna Wallin is a Toronto-born poet and prose writer whose work has appeared in The Antigonish Review, Carousel Magazine, Event Magazine, Juniper, The Literary Review of Canada, and Vallum Magazine, among many others. She is the author of four books: the poetry collection A Thousand Profane Pieces (Tightrope Books, 2006), the novel Confessions of a Reluctant Cougar (Tightrope Books, 2010), which was longlisted for the ReLit Award, Anatomy of an Injury (Inanna Publications, 2018), and The Suicide Tourist (Ekstasis Editions, 2024), which was selected by The Miramichi Reader as one of its “Best of Poetry Books, 2024.”

Wallin was longlisted for the 2022 Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse Contest, and her short fiction received an honourable mention in Esoterica Magazine’s 2023 Inaugural Fiction Contest. In June 2025, she will be a Main Stage Reader at the Read by the Sea Festival on Nova Scotia’s north shore.