Adrienne Drobnies is a PhD chemist and poet living in Vancouver, BC on the territories of the Coast Salish people. She worked with Rosemary Cornell at Simon Fraser University, and later at the BC Genomes Sciences Centre. In 2019, she published her first book of poetry, Salt and Ashes (Signature Editions), which won the Fred Kerner Award from the Canadian Authors Association. Her poem, “Randonnées,” won the Gwendolyn MacEwen Prize and was shortlisted for the CBC literary award. She is grateful to breathe the air, walk along the ocean, and wander through the forests of the lands where she resides, and seeks in whatever ways she can to sustain that abundance for future generations.