Jonathan Ball
holds a Ph.D. in English and teaches literature, film, and writing at the University of Manitoba and the University of Winnipeg. He is the author of the
poetry books
Ex Machina,
Clockfire, and
The Politics of Knives, the co-editor of
Why Poetry Sucks: An Anthology of Humorous Experimental Poetry, and the author of the academic monograph
John Paizs’s Crime Wave. Visit
him online at
JonathanBall.com, where he writes about writing the wrong way.