About the Author

Jim Nason is the author of four books of poetry, most recently?Music Garden (2013) and Narcissus Unfolding?(2011) with Frontenac House Books. He is also the author of two novels, ?I Thought I Would Be Happy?(2013, Tightrope Books), ?The Housekeeping Journals?(2007, Turnstone Press), and a collection of short stories, ?The Girl on the Escalator (2011, Tightrope Books). Jim has been a finalist for the CBC Literary Prize in both poetry and fiction, and has been published in the?The Best Canadian Poetry?2008 and 2010. He lives in Toron