Norm Sacuta was raised in Edmonton, and has returned to live in the city twice, after attending the University of British Columbia in 1987 and after studying in England for three years in the 1990s. It was in England that he was exposed to the politically charged atmosphere of the Sexual Dissidence and Cultural Change Program at the University of Sussex, and it was here that much of the poetry in this collection was formed or re-worked. He works as a writer and editor in Edmonton, where he is currently completing his first novel, One Last Thing About the Titanic.