Bradley McIlwain is a Canadian-based writer and poet who lives and works in rural Ontario. He is currently a staff writer at a community newspaper where he contributes stories on local heritage, the arts, and human interest. He holds a Bachelor of Arts, Honours, from Trent University with a major in English Literature. His poems have appeared in the Copperfield Review, Wanderings Magazine, Pens on Fire, New Verse News, Surfacing, Rope and Wire, Frostwriting and others. Fracture is his first chapbook.