Madhur Anand is a poet and professor of ecology at the University of Guelph. She is the author of the A New Index for Predicting Catastrophes and This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart, which won the 2020 Governor General's Literary Award for nonfiction.

This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart uses both poetry and science to explore how Anand grew up in Canada and how she was influenced by her family's traumas, values and lived experiences. The book weaves all these narratives together to tell a single story about truth, resilience, adaptation and love.