Marilyn Gear Pilling lives in Hamilton, Ontario. She is the author of three collections of short fiction, the most recent of which is On Huron’s Shore (Demeter Press), five collections of poetry, one chapbook, Estrangement (The Alfred Gustav Press, 2017), and is the editor of a book of poetry, Evenings on Paisley Avenue. She has won, and/or placed, in forty-five national contests for poetry, literary non fiction and fiction, including the CBC literary awards, the Western Magazine Awards and Descant’s first place award for Best Canadian Poem. She has, as well, won twenty local Hamilton awards in those three genres. Pilling’s work has been broadcast on the CBC and she has read in many venues, including Eden Mills, Harbourfront, the Banff Centre in Alberta,  the historic Shakespeare and Company bookstore in Paris France, and in Holguin Cuba. Several poems have been translated into Spanish. Pilling participated in the 2013 CBC poetry contest as a winnowing judge. She is past President of the Hamilton Poetry Centre.