Winner of the ONLY POEMS 2025 Poet of the Year Prize, Aidan Chafe is the author of three collections of poetry, including Soft Wolf, forthcoming from Gordon Hill Press in 2027. His poems have appeared in Contemporary Verse 2, The Ex-Puritan, EVENT, The Fiddlehead and PRISM international. He lives on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh peoples (Vancouver, BC).