Richard Harrison’s On Not Losing My Father’s Ashes in the Flood, won the 2017 Governor General’s Award, the 2017 Stephan G. Stephansson Book Prize for Poetry, and an Alcuin Society Prize for Book Design. It was also shortlisted for the City of Calgary Book Prize and is currently a finalist for Montana’s High Plains Poetry Prize. His previous books include the Governor General’s Award finalist Big Breath of a Wish, and Hero of the Play, the first book of poetry launched at the Hockey Hall of Fame. Richard teaches English and Creative Writing at Mount Royal University.