Chantel Lavoie lives in Kingston, Ontario, where she teaches at the Royal Military College of Canada. She has published three books of verse: Where the Terror Lies (2012); Serve the Sorrowing World with Joy (with Meg Freer, 2022) and This is About Angels, Women, and Men (2022), as well as poetry and fiction in journals like Arc, Prairie Fire, and Canadian Literature. Her academic publications include work on early women writers, eighteenth-century literature and culture, and children's literature. Her academic books include Collecting Women: Poetry and Lives, 1700-1780 (2009) and Writing through Boyhood in the Long Eighteenth Century: Age, Gender, and Work (2023).