Michael Turner was born in North Vancouver, B.C. in 1962 and spent his teenage summers working in the Skeena River salmon fishery. After high school, he travelled through Europe and North Africa, eventually to the University of Victoria, where he completed a BA (anthropology) in 1986. Between 1987-1993 he sang and played banjo in Hard Rock Miners; upon his retirement from touring, he opened the Malcolm Lowry Room (1993-1997). His first book, Company Town (Arsenal Pulp, 1991), was nominated for a Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. His second book, Hard Core Logo (Arsenal Pulp, 1993), was adapted to feature-film. Kingsway (1995), American Whiskey Bar (Arsenal Pulp, 1997), The Pornographer’s Poem (Doubleday, 1999) and 8x10 (New Star, 2009) followed. A frequent collaborator, he has written scripts with Stan Douglas, poems with Geoffrey Farmer and songs with cub, Dream Warriors, Fishbone and Kinnie Starr. He blogs at this address mtwebsit@blogspot.com.