Chris Orsman is an award-winning poet. Since his debut collection Ornamental Gorse was published in 1994, his poetry has featured in journals and anthologies. His second collection South was published in 1996, and reissued in 1999. Orsman launched Pemmican Press as a publisher of new poetry in 1998. He has won and been nominated for several key awards and he was the 2002 Writer in Residence at the Glenn Schaeffer House.
