Brent MacLaine is Professor Emeritus and a 3M Teaching Fellow in the Department of English at UPEI. He grew up in the rural community of Rice Point, PEI, to which he returned after teaching at universities in Vancouver, China, and Singapore. In addition to numerous academic articles on modern literature, he has published four volumes of poetry. His awards for poetry include a League of Canadian Poets prize, the Prince Edward Island Book Award, and the Atlantic Poetry Prize.