Ryan Fitzpatrick recently completed a PhD at Simon Fraser University and is currently a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto Scarborough. He is the author of two books of poetry: Fortified Castles (Talonbooks, 2014) and Fake Math (Snare, 2007). With Jonathan Ball, he edited Why Poetry Sucks: An Anthology of Humorous Experimental Canadian Poetry (Insomniac, 2014). With Deanna Fong and Janey Dodd, he worked on the Fred Wah Digital Archive.