Stuart Ross
Biography
Stuart Ross is a Toronto fiction writer, poet, editor, small-press publisher, and creative-writing instructor who has been active in the Toronto literary scene since the mid-1970s. He sold 7,000 copies of his self-published poetry and fiction chapbooks in the streets of Toronto during the '80s and is a co-founder, with Nicholas Power, of the Toronto Small Press Book Fair, an underground literary institution since 1987. He is the author of five major collections of poetry, most recently Hey, Crumbling Balcony! Poems New & Selected (ECW, 2003) and the forthcoming I Cut My Finger (Anvil, 2007), as well as numerous works of fiction, a collection of personal essays, and countless chapbooks and items of ephemera. He has supported scores of other writers through his various small press ventures and editorial work.