Billeh Nickerson

Billeh Nickerson is the author of two poetry collections: McPoems (Arsenal, 2009) and The Asthmatic Glassblower, nominated for the Publishing Triangle Poetry Prize. He is also the author of the humorous essay collection Let Me Kiss it Better: Elixirs for the Not So Straight and Narrow, and co-editor of Seminal: The Anthology of Canada's Gay Male Poets with John Barton. A founding member of the performance troupe "Haiku Night in Canada," he is the past editor of the literary journals Event and Prism international. A long-time resident of Vancouver, Billeh relocated to Toronto in December 2008.