In 2005 John B. Lee was inducted as Poet Laureate of Brantford and in 2015 he was appointed Honourary Poet Laureate of Norfolk County.   A recipient of over eighty prestigious international awards for his writing, he has well-over seventy books published to date and is the editor of nine anthologies.  Called “the greatest living poet in English,” by poet George Whipple, his most recent book Stronger in Broken Places was published by Aeolus House in 2024.  He lives with wife Cathy in a lake house overlooking Long Point Bay, in Port Dover, Ontario where he works as a full-time author.