Gary Barwin is a writer, composer, multimedia artist, and educator and the author of seventeen books of poetry and fiction as well as books for both teens and children. He is the author of Yiddish for Pirates, shortlisted for the Giller Prize in 2016. His most recent poetry collection is Moon Baboon Canoe (Mansfield Press, 2014). Sonosyntactics: Selected and New Poetry of Paul Dutton, introduced and Editor Barwin, came out with Wilfrid Laurier University Press in 2015. Barwin is winner of the 2013 City of Hamilton Arts Award (Writing), the Hamilton Poetry Book of the Year 2011, and co-winner of 2011 Harbourfront Poetry now competition. I, Dr. Greenblatt, Orthodontist, 251-1457 was shortlisted for a City of Hamilton prize.