Kieran Egan, Professor Emeritus at Simon Fraser University and a member of the Royal Society of Canada. His chapbook, 'Among the branches, ' was published by Alfred Gustav Press, in June, 2019. He was shortlisted for the Times Literary Supplement Mick Imlah prize in 2017 and the Acumen International Poetry Competition, 2020. His poems have appeared in many national and international magazines. In a former life he published around twenty more or less academic books, with forty or so translations into about twenty other languages. Kieran Egan lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.