Joelle Barron is a Canadian poet and activist. They received their MFA in creative writing from the University of British Columbia in 2014 and have been published in literary journals across Canada. Their first full length poetry collection, Ritual Lights, was published in 2018. It was longlisted for the Gerald Lampert Award in 2019 and Barron was selected as a finalist for the Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers the same year. They live on the traditional territory of the Anishinaabe of Treaty 3 (Kenora, Ontario) where they are active as an organizer of the local LGBTQ youth group and the Kenora Pride festival.