Marty Gervais is an award-winning journalist, photographer, poet, playwright, historian, publisher and editor. He received his B.A. from the University of Guelph, and an M.A. from the University of Windsor where he studied writing under the celebrated Canadian novelist and short story writer Morley Callaghan. In 1996 he was awarded the Milton Acorn People’s Poetry Award for his book, Tearing Into A Summer Day, and in 1998 he won Toronto’s prestigious Harbourfront Festival Prize. His most recent poetry collection, To Be Now: New and Selected Poems, won the City of Windsor Mayor’s Award for Literary Arts. He has written more than a dozen books of poetry, two plays and a novel. He is currently a columnist at the Windsor Star, the Resident Writing Professional at the University of Windsor, the managing editor of the Windsor Review literary magazine, and the publisher of Black Moss Press.