Louis Rastelli`s first published work was in the form of music reviews and interviews written for local alternative magazines when he was sixteen. He began publishing Fish Piss Magazine in 1996, an irregular compendium of local writing and art named "Canada`s best zine" by Broken Pencil Magazine. His writing has also appeared in Vice, Clamor, Saturday Night, the Montreal Mirror, and numerous other publications, as well as in a series of self-published miniature books of short stories and historical essays.