Jonathan Ball

Title: Instructor
Building: Ashdown
Email: j.ball@uwinnipeg.ca

Biography:

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 has written for television and film and 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.

Website:  jonathan@jonathanball.com

Teaching Areas:

Creative writing, Experimental literature, Film, Horror

Courses:

(F) ENGL-1003-001: INTRO: TOPICS

(F) ENGL-2102-001: INTRO CREATIVE WRITING

(W) ENGL-2102-006: INTRO CREATIVE WRITING

Publications:

Why Poetry Sucks: An Anthology of Humorous Experimental Canadian Poetry. Eds. Jonathan Ball and Ryan Fitzpatrick. Toronto: Insomniac, 2014. Print.

John Paizs’s Crime Wave. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2014. Print and eBook.

The Politics of Knives. Toronto: Coach House Books, 2012. Print and eBook.

Clockfire. Toronto: Coach House Books, 2010. Print and eBook.

Ex Machina. Toronto: BookThug, 2009. Print.

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