Steven Michael Berzensky moved to Canada from California in 1965. He is the author of four previous collections of poetry, Moving In from Paradise, Children on the Edge of Space, The Blue Pools of Paradise, Dark Halo, and numerous chapbooks. He has seved as editor of Grain, as Yorkton’s first writer–in–residence, and as an active and integral part of literary life on the prairies for many years. He currently lives and works in Yorkton, Saskatchewan.