Alan R. Wilson has an undergraduate degree in Physics from the University of New Brunswick, and a graduate degree in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia. He has had several jobs, the most memorable as a fire hydrant painter, an experience immortalized in the CBC television drama 106 Fire Hydrants. For reasons best known to himself, he once wrote a set of 100 poems about the numbers from 1 to 100 that became his second book, Counting to 100. His most recent book, Sky Atlas (2008), is a collection of 88 sonnets - one for each constellation.