Barry Olshen is Professor Emeritus, Senior Scholar at Glendon College, York University, and is currently working as a registered psychotherapist in private practice in Toronto. Both of these careers inform his poetry.His previous publications include five books and numerous articles on modern literature (especially the works of novelist John Fowles), drama and theatre history, literary theory, and the literature of the Hebrew Bible, as well as a chapbook of poetry (Memory Rooms, LyricalMyrical Press, 2002; rev. 2004).