Patrick Lane was born March 26, 1939 in Nelson, British Columbia. Lane was largely self-published through the sixties and seventies until Oxford University Press published his Poems, New and Selected which won him the Governor General's award in 1978. He has been a writer-in-residence and/or teacher at a number of institutions, including Concordia University, University of Alberta, University of Toronto, University of Saskatchewan, University of Victoria and York University. He has published twenty-two books over the past thirty years. He has won various awards including, the Dorothy Livesay Prize for Too Spare, Too Fierce in 1995, and the Canadian Author's Association Award for Poetry, for… Selected Poems in 1987. Lane has also received recognition from the Canada Council, the Ontario Arts Council, the Saskatchewan Arts Board and the Manitoba Arts Board. He co-wrote (with Lorna Crozier) the Nellie Award-winning radio script Chile. He has also received two National Magazine Awards. Patrick is a member of ACTRA, the Writers Union of Canada, the League of Canadian Poets and the Saskatchewan Writers Guild.