David McGimpsey

David McGimpsey is the Montreal-based author of five collections of poetry, most recently Li’l Bastard, which was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award and named as one of the “Books of the Year” by both Quill & Quire and The National Post. Some of his other books include the short fiction collection Certifiable and the award-winning critical study Imagining Baseball: America’s Pastime and Popular Culture. A contributing editor for EnRoute magazine, he is the Montreal fiction editor for Joyland magazine and fiction editor for the Punchy Books imprint of DC Books. Named by CBC as one of the “Top Ten English-language Poets in Canada,” his work was the subject of a book of essays Population Me: Essays on David McGimpsey (Palimpsest Press). He holds a Ph.D. in Literature, and teaches creative writing and literature at Concordia University.