Name: Visiting Writers Series: Stuart Ross
Start: 2024-10-08T18:00:00-05:00
Location: Niemann Media Theatre at Carthage College

The Visiting Writers Series presents Stuart Ross, acclaimed and award-winning author of 20+ books of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. Join us for the event at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 8, in the Niemann Media Theater.
Mr. Ross’ most recent works include the memoir “The Book of Grief and Hamburgers,” winner of the 2023 Trillium Book Award; the poetry collection “The Sky Is a Sky in the Sky;” and the short story collection “I Am Claude François and You Are a Bathtub.”
“A Sparrow Came Down Resplendent” won the Canadian Jewish Literary Award for Poetry; “Snowball, Dragonfly, Jew” won the Mona Elaine Adilman Award for Jewish Fiction; and “Buying Cigarettes for the Dog” won the Relit Award for Short Fiction. In 2018, Mr. Ross received the Harbourfront Festival Prize for his contributions to Canadian literature. Mr. Ross teaches at the U of T School of Continuing Studies and has visited classrooms across Canada to read and lead workshops. His poetry has been translated into Nynorsk, French, Spanish, Russian, Slovene, and Estonian, and he runs the Feed Dog Book imprint for surrealist poetry at Anvil Press and the 1366 Books imprint for experimental fiction at Guernica Editions. He has performed sound poetry, solo and with musicians, for decades. Active in Canadian micropress since the mid-1970s, Mr. Ross lives in Cobourg, on the north shore of Lake Ontario, and blogs infrequently at bloggamooga.blogspot.ca.