GARY BARWIN is a writer, composer, and performer. He is the author of numerous books and chapbooks of poetry and fiction including the poetry collections frogments from the frag pool: haiku after basho (written with derek beaulieu) and Raising Eyebrows and Outside the Hat and the fiction collections Doctor Weep and other strange teeth, Big Red Baby, and Cruelty to Fabulous Animals. He is the author of The Mud Game, a novel written with Stuart Ross. Barwin is also the author of several books for children including Seeing Stars, a young adult noveL nominated for an Arthur Ellis Award and the CLA YA Book of the Year, and Killer Poodle Made Me Island King, co-winner of the Muskoka Novel Marathon 2003. Barwin received a PhD in Music Composition and currently teaches music at Hillfield-Strathallan College and creative writing at McMaster University. Barwin lives in Hamilton, where he has cultivated vague but colourful illusions about his writing. Please don't tell him.
