About the Author

Ben Murray's poetry has appeared in a wide variety of journals including Descant, Event, Prairie Fire, Contemporary Verse 2, and the Windsor Review, and has been widely anthologized. The title poem for this collection won the Contemporary Verse 2 Poetry Award in 2001. His work has been broadcast on CBC radio, and he is a winner of the Canadian Poetry Association Award for Poetry, the Petra Kenney International Poetry Prize, and the 12th Annual Hope Writers Guild Award. This is his first full-length collection of poems.