Carl Leggo is poet and professor in the Department of Language and Literacy Education at the University of British Columbia where he has been happily researching, writing and teaching since 1990. His essays, poetry and fiction have been published in journals across North America. HIs most recent book, a sequence of short fiction and poetry, is Sailing in a Concrete Boat: A Teacher’s Journey (2012). His earlier poetry collections include Come-By-Chance (2006); View From My Mother’s House (1999) and Growing Up Perpendicular on the Side of a Hill (1994). He lives and works in Vancouver, BC.