Hilary Peach is a writer, recording artist, and producer of unusual art projects. She was a founder and the director of the Poetry Gabriola Festival, an infamous interdisciplinary performance event that presented many Canadian and international artists on Gabriola Island. For twenty years she also worked as a transient welder, travelling across Canada and the United States, working in pulp mills, chemical plants, refineries, and generating stations.

In 2022 she released a memoire about this time, Thick Skin: Field Notes from a Sister in the Brotherhood (Anvil Press 2022).

She has a collection of poetry, BOLT (Anvil Press 2019), and has released three audio-poetry projects, Poems Only Dogs Can Hear, Suitcase Local, and Dictionary of Snakes.

Hilary Peach now works as a welding inspector and a Boiler Safety Officer, and is writing fiction.