Jake Kennedy

Jake Kennedy was born in the tobacco-land of Woodstock, Ontario, and grew up in the big-box-land of Mississauga, Ontario. Now Jake lives and works happily in the Okanagan. Some of Jake’s writing has appeared in McSweeney’s, Pissing Ice Anthology: New Canadian Poets, Drunken Boat, Kiss Machine, and The Diagram. His Book*hug chapbook, Hazard, won the 2007 bpnichol Chapbook Award. with his artist friend Paola Poletto, Kennedy co-edited Boredom Fighters: A Graphic Poem Anthology in 2008. He received the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry for The Lateral, published by Snare Books. He is working currently on an entirely made-up (but reverent) biography of New York poet-architect Madeline Gins. He is also co-compiling, with his great friend kevin mcpherson eckhoff, Death Valley: a Collaborative Community Novel.