Award-winning author Gary Barwin has written poems, novels and books for children. He's composed music, created multimedia art and performed around the world. Now he has turned his talented pen to essays. In Imagining Imagining: Essays on Language, Identity and Infinity Barwin thinks deeply about big ideas: story and identity; art and death; how we communicate and why we dream. From his childhood home in Ireland to his long-time home in Hamilton, Barwin shares the thoughts that keep him up at night (literally) and the ideas that keep him creating. Filled with witty asides, wise stories and a generosity of spirit that is unmistakable, these are essays that readers will turn to again and again. (From Wolsak & Wynn)

Gary Barwin is a writer, composer, visual and multidisciplinary artist and the author of more than two dozen books of poetry, fiction and books for children. He lives in Hamilton, Ont.

His national bestselling novel Yiddish for Pirates won the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour as well as the Canadian Jewish Literary Award (Fiction). It was also a finalist for both the Governor General's Award for Fiction and the Scotiabank Giller Prize. In 2017, he published the poetry collection No TV for Woodpeckers and in 2022, another collection The Most Charming Creatures.

His novel Nothing the Same, Everything Haunted won a 2021 Canadian Jewish Literary Award in the fiction category.