Paul Lisson is a Librarian and Archivist with the Hamilton Public Library and holds degrees from McMaster University and the University of Toronto. He edits Hamilton Arts & Letters magazine, (HALmagazine.com). Paul was awarded McMaster’s Rand Memorial Prize for accomplishment in print, the City of Hamilton Art Award for Visual Art and Literature, and an International Merit Award for poetry from the Atlanta Review. Paul is a member of the City of Hamilton Cultural Plan Implementation Team. His debut book, The Perfect Archive, (“Bloody amazing stuff” declared The Globe and Mail’s Judith Fitzgerald), will be published by Guernica Editions in 2019.