Dilan Qadir is a Kurdish-Canadian writer based in Vancouver, BC. His work spans poetry, fiction, and non-fiction, with publications in Quae Nocent Docent Anthology, The Lonely Whale Memoir Anthology, Culturico, The Markaz Review, The Fiddlehead, and Grain. Dilan was the recipient of the PEN Canada-Humber College Writers-in-Exile Scholarship in 2023, and he was named a Rising Star by the Writer's Trust of Canada in 2025.