Benjamin Hertwig

Benjamin Hertwig is a Canadian poet, whose debut poetry collection ''Slow War'' was a shortlisted finalist for the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry at the 2017 Governor General's Awards.

A former member of the Canadian Armed Forces who served in Afghanistan, he has also published short fiction and non-fiction work in ''Maisonneuve'', ''Canadian Literature'', ''The Walrus'', ''Ricepaper'', ''Geez'', ''Prairie Fire'', ''Pleiades'' and ''The New York Times''. He won a National Magazine Award in the Personal Journalism category in 2017 for "The Burn". Provided by Wikipedia