Richard Lemm is an award-winning author who has an MA in English from Queen's University and a PhD from Dalhousie University. He has been a faculty member at the Banff School of Fine Arts, and has been writer in residence and poetry instructor for various community colleges, regional libraries, public school districts, and summer writing programs across the country. He is professor of Canadian and English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Prince Edward Island.  He is the author of several volumes of poetry, as well the biography, Milton Acorn: In Love and Anger and the short story collection Shape of Things to Come.