Close to the Bone

David Lampe is a native Iowan who lives in Buffalo. Now professor emeritus, he taught Medieval and Modern literature at Buffalo State College for 40 years. He has edited four collections of Irish literature and one of Canadian short stories, and has published three chapbooks of poetry: The Tree Walked, Selected Quarrels and Quivers of Anonymous of Elmwood, and Like A Lark Singing in the Open Sky.

Gabriela Campos has paintings, lithographs, monoprints, and drawings in private and corporate collections around the world. Born in Mexico, she has lived in Canada since 2004, while maintaining artistic ties to the culturally vital city of Oaxaca (Mexico).

Al Moritz (Introduction) is a United States-born Canadian poet, teacher, and scholar. He has won numerous awards, including the Griffin Poetry Prize and the Raymond Souster Award, as well as being a three-time nominee for the Governor General’s Award for English-language poetry. In 2019, Moritz was named as the new Poet Laureate of Toronto.