Shirley Camia is a Filipina-Canadian poet and the author of four collections of poetry, including Children Shouldn’t Use Knives (At Bay Press, 2017) and The Significance of Moths (Turnstone Press, 2015). Her work has been featured in publications such as Contemporary Verse 2, The New Quarterly, and TAYO. “As You Wish” is reprinted with permission from Turnstone Press.