JAY GAMBLE was born and raised in London, Ontario. He completed his BA and MA at the University of Waterloo, where he wrote his thesis on the work of Robert Kroetsch. He completed his PhD at the University of Calgary, which focused on the ethics of nothingness in Canadian prairie literature. Some of his poems from Book of Knots have appeared, in different versions, in Shift and Switch: New Canadian Poetry. Jay currently teaches English at the University of Lethbridge and is the proud father of two sons.