About

Billeh Nickerson is a writer, editor, performer, producer and arts advocate who divides his year between Toronto and Vancouver. He is the author of The Asthmatic Glassblower, Let Me Kiss it Better: Elixirs for the Not So Straight and Narrow, and his most recent collection, McPoems. He is also the co-editor of Seminal: the Anthology of Canada’s Gay Male Poets, and a former editor of PRISM international and Event, two of Canada’s most respected literary journals. He has performed at hundreds of readings and festivals across Canada and the U.S, and, in 2008, served as Queen’s University’s Writer in Residence. He teaches Creative Writing at Kwantlen Polytechnic University.