Jay Ruzesky

• B.A. (Victoria)
• M.A. (Windsor)

Canadian literature, American poetry, First Nations literature.

Research Interests:

- Film, especially experimental film.
- Creative writing: poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction.
- Blues lyrics from the folk tradition.
- Polar Exploration.
- Canadian literature, environmental literature, American poetry.

Jay Ruzesky has recently guest-edited a special issue of The Malahat Review on environmental literature called “The Green Imagination”. His next book is a novel about a medieval monumental astronomical clock. It is called The Wolsenburg Clock and will be published by Thistledown Press in September 2009.
He studied at Okanagan College (with John Lent), the University of Victoria (with Constance Rooke), the University of Windsor (with Alistair MacLeod), and at the Banff Centre for the Arts (with Don Coles and Don McKay).
His poems and stories have appeared in Canadian and American journals such as Caliban, Prism international, Canadian Literature, Event, Saturday Night, Descant, Border Crossings, and Poetry Northwest.

His books include Blue Himalayan Poppies (Nightwood, 2001), Writing on the Wall (Outlaw Editions, 1996), Painting The Yellow House Blue (House of Anansi, 1994), and Am I Glad To See You (Thistledown, 1992.

He is on the editorial board of the Malahat Review and teaches English, Creative Writing and Film Studies at Vancouver Island University. Essays, interviews and art criticism have appeared in Brick, Poetry Canada Review, and selected gallery publications. He is currently working on another novel, a play, and a manuscript of poems.