PHIL HALL is a writer, editor, and teacher. His first book, Eighteen Poems, was published in 1973. Among his many published titles are: Old Enemy Juice; The Unsaid; Hearthedral-A Folk-Hermetic; An Oak Hunch; White Porcupine; Killdeer (winner of the 2011 Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry, the 2012 Trillium Book Award, and shortlisted for the 2012 Griffin Poetry Prize); and The Small Nouns Crying Faith. Hall has taught writing at York University, Ryerson University, Seneca College, George Brown College, and elsewhere, and has held the position of Poetry Editor for Book*hug since 2013. Phil lives with his wife near Perth, Ontario.