Stuart Ross

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, Capilano 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 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. In 2000, he was a Finalist for the Trillium Book Award, for Farmer Gloomy's New Hybrid. His acclaimed short-story collection, Buying Cigarettes for the Dog (Freehand Books, 2009), recently went into a second printing.

Stuart Ross will present a workshop, Writers' Boot Camp on Saturday, October 30, from 2 -5 p.m. at the Art Gallery of Windsor in the Boardroom. The workshop is limited to 20 persons. Note that the all-event pass does not cover admission to this event.