Adam Dickinson is a poet and a professor of poetry born in Bracebridge, Ont. He is noted for his 2013 poetry collection The Polymers, which was shortlisted for the 2013 Governor General's Literary Award for poetry, for the 2014 ReLit Award for Poetry and for the 2014 Trillium Book Award. His other poetry collections include Cartography and Walking, Kingdom, Phylum and Anatomic.