Louise Bak is a poet, with books including Tulpa and Gingko Kitchen. She co-hosts Sex City, Toronto’s only radio show focused on relations between sexuality and culture (CIUT 89.5 FM). Her performance work has appeared in numerous spaces and in video collaborations such as Partial Selves and Crimes of the Heart. The feature film project she co-wrote, The Ache, was featured in the 2009 Toronto Asian Reel Film Festival. She hosts the Box, a salon night of readings, performances, screenings and interventions that aims to bring diverse communities into an environment of artistic and social intermingling.