Phil Hall has published twenty books of poetry and many chapbooks. He has won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry in English and Ontario’s Trillium Book Award, and he has twice been nominated for the Griffin Poetry Prize. He has served as writer-in-residence at many Canadian institutions, including the University of New Brunswick, and the Pierre Berton House in the Yukon. His most recent work, The Ash Bell (2022), is published by Beautiful Outlaw Press. He lives in Perth, Ontario.