Stuart Ross is a poet, fictioneer, editor, and writing instructor. He sold 7,000 copies of his poetry and fiction chapbooks in the streets of Toronto during the ’80s and co-founded, with Nicholas Power, the Toronto Small Press Book Fair. Stuart has edited the literary magazines Mondo Hunkamooga, Who Torched Rancho Diablo?, Dwarf Puppets on Parade and Peter O’Toole: The Magazine of One-Line Poems. His latest project is Syd & Shirley.

Stuart has given hundreds of readings in Canada, the U.S., England, and Nicaragua, and has appeared at the Ottawa International Writers’ Festival, Banff-Calgary WordFest, Ashkenaz Festival of Yiddish Culture, MayWorks, Words in Whitby, Vancouver Jewish Book Fair, West Coast Poetry Festival, Poetry on the Rocks (Kimberley/Cranbrooke), Lucerne School Writers Festival (New Denver), the Hillside Festival (Guelph), Cleveland Performance Art Festival, the Ottawa Folk Festival, and the Toronto Mini-Festival of Sound Poetry. His work has appeared in scores of journals, including Harper’s, Capitano Review, West Coast Line, Geist, Rampike, WHAT!, Industrial Sabotage, dig., Perpetual Motion Machine, Fell Swoop, Taddle Creek, and Bomb Threat Checklist. His column “Hunkamooga” appears in sub-Terrain. Stuart taught poetry at Centauri Summer Arts Retreat for three years, has taught writing in elementary and high schools, and has led his Poetry Boot Camps across Canada. He was the 2002 Writer in Residence for the Writers’ Circle of Durham Region, the 2003 Poet in Residence for the Ottawa International Writers’ Festival, and the 2005 Electronic Writer in Residence for Toronto Public Library’s RAMP website. Stuart is the Fiction & Poetry Editor for This Magazine.