Greg Frankson is an educator, subject matter expert, entrepreneur, activist, speaker, and award-winning literary artist and essayist based in Toronto, Canada. He is the editor of the critically acclaimed AfriCANthology: Perspectives of Black Canadian Poets (Renaissance Press, 2022) and the author of four poetry collections: Cerebral Stimulation (2006), Lead on a Page (2012), A Weekly Dose of Ritallin (2015), and Cerebral Confections (2021). Greg’s work also appeared in the anthologies Mic Check (2008), That Not Forgotten (2012), The Great Black North (2013), Nothing Without Us Too (2022), and African Leadership: Powerful Paradigms for the 21st Century (2023). Greg is a 2012 Canadian national poetry slam champion, a 2013 VERSe Ottawa Hall of Honour inductee, and was awarded Best of the Blog 2022 on All Lit Up for the essay Black Poets Across Canada. He previously was the poet laureate of the International Initiative for Mental Health Leadership and a poetic commentator on CBC Radio One’s Here and Now Toronto. Dundurn Press will publish Greg’s first full-length work of creative nonfiction, Alphabet Soup: A Memoir in Letters, in January 2025.