Ken Kowal is a Winnipeg resident who has long been involved in the city’s poetry scene. His chapbook I dream of my father’s hands (Kaw Publications, 1997) was short listed for the Heaven Chapbook award in 1998, and his poems have been featured in the Poetry in Motion project in several cities. He has published two smaller collections of poetry with Highbrow Books and another chapbook with The Martian Press, Calgary. Gimp Crow is his first full collection of poetry with Turnstone Press.