Tom Dawe is an award-winning poet, as well as a painter, editor, and educator, who lives in Conception Bay South, NL. He is always on the lookout for good ghost stories and bits of folklore; several of the stories he has collected are adapted in <i>An Old Man?s Winter Night</i> and <i>Spirited Away: Fairy stories of old Newfoundland.</i> He is a member of the Order of Canada, and the Order of Newfoundland and Labrador.