Stuart Ross is a prolific writer, performer, editor, and teacher. He has been active in the Toronto literary scene since the mid-1970s, selling 7,000 copies of his self-published poetry and fiction chapbooks in the streets of Toronto through the 1980s. Ross co-founded the Toronto Small-Press Book Fair in 1987, and has performed at hundreds of venues in Canada and abroad. He has edited a number of literary magazines, the latest being Syd & Shirley. Ross's work has appeared in scores of Canadian and American literary journals, and his most recent book of poetry, Hey, Crumbling Balcony! Poems New and Selected (ECW) was published in 2003 to critical acclaim. Ross's Confessions of a Small Press Racketeer (non-fiction) was published by Anvil Press in 2005, and a new collection of poems, I Cut My Finger, is forthcoming from Anvil in spring 2007. Ross lives in Toronto.
