Brent MacLaine's teaching career has taken him to universities in Vancouver, Edmonton, and Singapore. Since 1991, he has been a professor of English at the University of Prince Edward Island, where he has received the prestigious 3M Award for excellence in teaching. MacLaine is the author of one previous collection of poetry, the highly acclaimed Wind and Root (2000, Vehicule Press). His poems have also appeared in numerous literary journals, including The Fiddlehead, The Antigonish Review, The Windsor Review, Matrix and The Cormorant, and in anthologies such as Landmarks: An Anthology of New Atlantic Poetry of the Land and Coastlines: The Poetry of Atlantic Canada. MacLaine's ancestors came to Rice Point, Prince Edward Island, in 1838. Today he lives on a corner of the family farm there, overlooking the Northumberland Strait.