Juliane Okot Bitek is currently a PhD student in the Interdisciplinary Students Graduate Program at the University of British Columbia’s Liu Institute for Global Issues. Her doctoral research focuses on the impact of social forgetting on citizenship through the exploration of the quiet story of a 1979 naval accident where several Ugandan exiles lost their lives. Along with northern Ugandan women’s advocate Grace Acan, she has co-authored a book Stories from the Dry Season (unpublished). Juliane has been an invited poet at the Medellin International Poetry Festival (2008) and 2016, held in Colombia, and V Festivale Internacionale de Poesia en Granada (2009), held in Nicaragua. She continues to write and speak about issues of home, homeland, exile, citizenship, and diaspora. 100 Days (University of Alberta Press, 2016) is a poetic response to the twentieth anniversary of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. Juliane is also a Poetry Ambassador for the City of Vancouver, working under the auspices of Vancouver Poet Laureate Rachel Rose.