Cage of Light is Ned Baeck’s second full-length collection of poems with Guernica Editions. (Wait, his debut collection, was released in 2018). He is also the author of a chapbook with LyricalMyrical press. Ned studied Liberal Arts at Concordia University and Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia. He has lived for eighteen years in Vancouver, and has worked mostly in the restaurant industry. In 2019 he travelled to Japan and spent five months at a Rinzai Temple, returning first to Toronto, where he stayed a year, before settling again in Vancouver.