Richard Weiser is a poet, musician and playwright. His work has been published internationally in journals such as Acumen, Blank Spaces and 99 Pine Street and produced at The Toronto Fringe Festival. The League of Canadian Poets selected Moses' Staff for their daily Poetry Pause. He's written ads for almost 20 years and recently won a Cannes Lion (advertising's version of the Oscar). Richard studied creative writing at York University with Don Coles and Robert Casto. He's written a biography of the Canadian painter Tom Thomson (Dragon Hill Publishing 2021) and is working on a novel set during the First Crusade.