Alexander Hollenberg is a Pushcart-nominated poet and professor of storytelling. Some of his recent poems have appeared in Arc Poetry Magazine, Best Canadian Poetry 2025, CV2, Grain and The New Quarterly. He is a past winner of CV2’s Two-Day Poem Contest and has been longlisted for several other awards, including the CBC Poetry Prize, the Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse Contest and the Ralph Gustafson Poetry Prize. He is from Hamilton, Ontario.