Calvin Wharton is the Chair of Creative Writing at Douglas College in New Westminster, BC, and edited Event: The Douglas College Review from 1996-2001. He is the author of Visualized Chemistry (Tsunami, 1987), Three Songs by Hank Williams (Turnstone Press, 2002) and The Song Collides (Anvil Press, 2011). He co-edited the poetry anthology, East of Main (Arsenal Pulp Press, 1989), with Tom Wayman, and co-wrote Rowing (Boston Mills Press, 1994), with Canadian rower Silken Laumann. Aside from teaching, he has managed a variety of jobs, including working as a sandblaster, a gardener, a sawmill worker, and a ranch hand.