Michael Barnholden was born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan on Treaty 4 territory. He has worked in construction, agriculture, and forestry, and as a child care worker, disability advocate, and sessional instructor. He has also worked in publishing at Talonbooks, New Star, Tsunami, West Coast Line, and Line Books, has written ten books of poetry and several nonfiction titles, and is currently working on a biography entitled Louis Riel: Poet. Recent projects include 360riotwalk.ca, and an interactive walking tour of the 1907 Anti-Asian Riots in Vancouver. He is the editor of Roy Miki’s Flow: Poems Collected and New (Talonbooks, 2018).