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Kanika Lawton is a Vancouver-born, Toronto-based writer and editor. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Psychology with a Minor in Film Studies from the University of British Columbia, where she served as an editor with the UBC Undergraduate Film Student Association. She is completing her Master's of Arts degree at the University of Toronto's Cinema Studies Institute, where her thesis focused on corporeality, subjectivity, and female doubles in psychological horror films. 

Kanika is the Founder and Editor-In-Chief of L'Éphémère Review, edited the anthologies Beyond the Shallows and Overture to Memory (both through L'Éphémère Review) and guest-edited Glass Poetry's Poets Resist series in June 2019. A 2013 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards Gold and Silver Key recipient, 2018 Porkbelly Press Micro Chapbook Series finalist, multiple Pushcart Prize nominee, Best of the Net nominee, and 2018 Pink Door Fellow, her work has appeared in Ricepaper Magazine, Vagabond City Literary Journal, ​Hypertrophic Literary, Longleaf Review, and Glass Poetry, among others, and profiled in The Ellis Review and Horn & Ivory Zine.

​Kanika is the author of the micro-chapbooks Wildfire Heart (The Poetry Annals, 2018), Loneliness, and Other Ways to Split a Body (Ghost City Press, 2018), and Monster (Girl) Theory (post ghost press, 2019).