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Billeh Nickerson (b. 1972) is a Canadian writer, editor, performer, producer and arts advocate. Nickerson was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, grew up in Langley, British Columbia, and currently resides in Vancouver British Columbia. He has an undergraduate degree in Fine Arts from the University of Victoria and a masters degree in Fine Arts from the University of British Columbia. In 2000, Nickerson published The Asthmatic Glassblower and other poems with Arsenal Pulp. It was nominated for the Publishing Triangle Poetry Prize. He is also the author of the humorous essay collection Let Me Kiss it Better: Elixirs for the Not So Straight and Narrow (Arsenal Pulp, 2002) and co-editor of Seminal: The Anthology of Canada's Gay Male Poets with John Barton (Arsenal Pulp, 2007). In 2009, he published McPoems (Arsenal Pulp, 2009). Nickerson is a founding member of the performance troupe Haiku Night in Canada. He is also the past editor of the literary journals Event and Prism international, and served on the National Council of the Writers’ Union of Canada. Nickerson was Queen’s University’s 2008 Writer in Residence.