BILLEH NICKERSON is the author of six previous books, including Artificial Cherry, which was nominated for the City of Vancouver Book Award. He is a past editor of both Event and Prism International, and co-editor of the groundbreaking anthology Seminal: The Anthology of Canada’s Gay Male Poets. His latest book is Duct-Taped Roses. He lives and works in Vancouver where he is the co-chair of the Creative Writing Department at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. (BRITISH COLUMBIA)