Nord-Ost, Epilogue: Dear Ahmad

Dominique Bernier-Cormier

Dominique Bernier-Cormier was born in Quebec and spent the summers of his childhood on New Brunswick's Acadian coast. But he grew up in Moscow, Paris, and Beijing, where his father worked as a foreign correspondent for CBC/Radio Canada television. Bernier-Cormier won the Fiddlehead's Ralph Gustafson Prize for Best Poem in 2017 for "Fabric." His poems have also been shortlisted for the Montreal International Poetry Prize, Arc's Poem of the Year Award, CV2's Young Buck Poetry Prize, and a National Magazine Award. His chapbook, Englishing, was published by Frog Hollow Press in spring 2017. He is currently a poetry editor for Rahila's Ghost Press. Correspondent is his first book.