Heather Cadsby was born in Belleville, Ontario and moved to Toronto at a young age.
Her personal background is Irish (Kelso) and French Canadian (Deroche). Three generations of both families are buried in the Belleville cemetery
In Could be, each poem is a moment of engaged and isolated attention, prodding language, relationships, the mundane aspects of daily life, friendships and art.
It asks how we use words, how we shape them and are in turn shaped by them.