Adebe DeRango-Adem is a writer and graduate student (University of Pennsylvania) whose words travel between Toronto, Philadelphia and New York. Her debut poetry collection, Ex Nihilo (Frontenac House, 2010) was one of ten manuscripts chosen in honour of Frontenac House's Dektet 2010 competition, using a blind selection process by a jury of leading Canadian writers: bill bissett, George Elliott Clarke, and Alice Major. Ex Nihilo was longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize, the world's largest prize for writers under 30. She is also the co-editor, alongside Andrea Thompson, of Other Tongues: Mixed-Race Women Speak Out (Inanna Publications, 2010). Adebe is looking forward to the Spring 2015 debut of her second full-length poetry collection, Terra Incognita, also published by Inanna Publications, a press dedicated to showcasing the work of women writers the world over.