Proma Tagore was born in Kolkata, India, and immigrated to Canada at the age of four. For the past fifteen years, she has been living between Victoria and Vancouver, Coast Salish Territories. Tagore edited the anthology In Our Own Voices: Learning and Teaching Toward Decolonisation, and is the author of The Shapes of Silence: Writing by Women of Colour and the Politics of Testimony. Her first book of poetry, language is not the only thing that breaks, is a reflection of the effects of racism and migration on the body.