George Amabile is a poet and writer from Winnipeg, Manitoba. He has published fourteen books and has had his work published in over a hundred national and international venues. He has won awards in the CAA National Prize, the CBC Literary Competition, the Petra Kenney International Competition, the MAC national poetry contest, and the National Magazine Awards. His most recent publications are Small Change (Libros Libertad, 2011), Dancing, with Mirrors (Porcupine's Quill, 2011), Martial Music (Signature Editions, 2016) all of which won Bressani awards, and Operation Stealth Seed (Signature Editions, 2019) which won the Michael Von Rooy award for genre fiction.