Carrie Jenkins is an author and philosophy professor who lives and works on the unceded territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) First Nations. Jenkins’s first novel, Victoria Sees It, was published in 2021 by Penguin Random House Canada, and has been shortlisted for the Frye Academy Award and the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. Her non-fiction books include What Love Is and What It Could Be (Basic Books, 2017) and Sad Love: Romance and the Search For Meaning (Polity, 2022).