Stephen Collis is a poet, critic and scholar. Author of two books of poetry, Mine (New Star 2001) and Anarchive (New Star 2005), which was nominated for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, as well as numerous chapbooks, including The Birth of Blue (1997), Anima/lung (1998) and Blackberries (2005), his essays on contemporary poetry and poetics have appeared in many Canadian and American journals including the Capilano Review and the Chicago Review. He has edited Companions & Horizons: An Anthology of Simon Fraser University Poetry (WCL 2005), and is the author of two book-length studies, Phyllis Webb and the Common Good (Talonbooks 2007) and Through Words of Others: Susan Howe and Anarcho-Scholasticism (ELS Editions 2006). A member of the Kootenay School of Writing collective and the Modernist Studies Association, he teaches American literature, poetry and creative writing at Simon Fraser University.