Stuart Ross

Stuart Ross published his first literary pamphlet on the photocopier in his dad’s office one night in 1979. Through the 1980s, he stood on Toronto’s Yonge Street wearing signs like “Writer Going To Hell,” selling over 7,000 poetry and fiction chapbooks. A long-time literary press activist, he is a founding member of the Meet the Presses collective, Editor at Mansfield Press, and for eight years was Fiction & Poetry Editor at This Magazine. He is the author of two collaborative novels, two story collections, seven poetry books, and the novel Snowball, Dragonfly, Jew, which co-won the 2012 Mona Elaine Adilman Award for Fiction on a Jewish Theme. He has also published a collection of essays, Confessions of a Small Press Racketeer, and co-edited the anthology Rogue Stimulus: The Stephen Harper Holiday Anthology for a Prorogued Parliament. Buying Cigarettes for the Dog won the 2010 ReLit Award for Short Fiction. His most recent poetry book is You Exist. Details Follow. He lives in Cobourg, Ontario.

Books by Stuart Ross

The Sky is a Sky in the Sky

I Am Claude Francois and You Are a Bathtub

Motel of the Opposable Thumbs

Pockets

Certain Details

Sparrow Came Down Resplendent, A

Further Confessions of a Small Press Racketeer

A Hamburger in a Gallery

My Planet of Kites

Our Days In Vaudeville

You Exist. Details Follow.

Snowball, Dragonfly, Jew

Rogue Stimulus

Buying Cigarettes for the Dog

Dead Cars in Managua

I Cut My Finger

Confessions of a Small Press Racketeer

Hey, Crumbling Balcony!

Surreal Estate

Razovsky at Peace

Farmer Gloomy's New Hybrid

Henry Kafka

The Inspiration Cha-Cha

Mud Game