COOPER SKJEIE (/shay/) is an educator and poet from Treaty 6 and Métis Territory. An alumnus of the 2019 Banff Centre’s Emerging Writers Intensive, he won third prize in the 2020 Short Grain Contest for Poetry and was shortlisted for the 2020 Pacific Spirit Poetry Prize. His work appears in PRISM international and Grain Magazine, among others. He lives
in Saskatoon.
barrels full of boiling medicine can be found in Augur Magazine Issue 4.1.