Career
His first collection of poems, The Animal Library was nominated for the 2000 A. M. Klein Prize for, and his co-edited collection of essays, Language Acts: Anglo-Québec, 1976 to the 21st Century was nominated for the 2007 Gabrielle Roy Prize. He teaches literature in the Department of English at Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, and edits the Punchy Writers poetry imprint for District of Columbia Books. His scholarly research has focused on the history of literary style, and on spoken and literary sound recordings.