Jim Johnston

Jim Johnstone is the author of three previous books of poetry. The Velocity of Escape (2008), Patternicity (2010) and Sunday, the locusts (2011). He is is a two-time winner of the E. J. Pratt Medal and Prize in Poetry, the recipient of a 2008 CBC Literary Award and Arc Poetry Magazine’s 2009 Readers’ Choice Award. Currently he’s the Poetry Editor at Palimpsest Press, and an Associate Editor at Representative Poetry Online. He lives in Toronto.