Bruce Meyer is author of 34 books of poetry, short fiction, nonfiction, literary journalism and pedagogy including the national bestseller The Golden Thread (HarperCollinsFlamingo, 2000). He is a professor of English at Georgian College in Barrie, where he teaches for Laurentian University, and also teaches at Victoria College in the University of Toronto and St. Michael’s College. He is the inaugural Poet Laureate of the City of Barrie.