PHILLIP CRYMBLE is a physically disabled writer and literary scholar living in Fredericton, New Brunswick. A poetry editor at The Fiddlehead and a PhD candidate at UNB, he received his MFA from the University of Michigan and has published poems in The Literary Review of Canada, The Forward Book of Poetry, The Malahat Review, The Montreal Prize Anthology, Poetry Ireland Review, and elsewhere. Not Even Laughter, his first full-length collection, was a finalist for both the J.M. Abraham Prize and the New Brunswick Book Award. In 2016 he won The Puritan’s annual Thomas Morton Poetry Prize. In 2017 he was voted the Reader’s Choice Award winner in Arc Poetry’s poem of the Year contest.