Mick Friesen is a high school English teacher at W. C. Miller Collegiate in Altona, Manitoba. Over the course of many years of teaching poetry, it has slowly become an avocation. Inspiration for his poems is found in everyday minutiae, where even a fragmented conversation, or seemingly mundane physical detail, become sources of creativity. At other times, that inspiration is found in reading the literary and philosophical reflections of others. His worldview has been shaped significantly by the Anabaptist-Mennonite story and various teachers, friends, and family members who are also part of this tradition.