Gary Barwin is a writer, composer, and multidisciplinary artist and the author of 30 booksincluding Nothing the Same, Everything Haunted: The Ballad of Motl the Cowboy which won the Canadian Jewish Literary Award and was chosen for Hamilton Reads 2023. His national bestselling novel Yiddish for Pirates won the Leacock Medal for Humour and the Canadian Jewish Literary Award, was a finalist for the Governor General’s Award for Fiction and the Scotiabank Giller Prize and was long listed for Canada Reads. It has been optioned for TV. His YA novel Seeing Stars was a finalist for the Canadian Library Association Best YA book as well as the Crime Writers of Canada Arthur Ellis Award. His many poetry collections include the recent Duck Eats Yeast, Quacks, Explodes; Man Loses Eye (with Lillian Nećakov; 2023.) His latest book is Imagining Imagining: Essays on Language, Identity and Infinity. He has a PhD in music composition and has been writer-in-residence at many universities, colleges and libraries. Born in Northern Ireland to South African parents of Lithuanian Ashkenazi descent, he lives in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. garybarwin.com