Mark Laba grew up in Toronto, but has lived in Vancouver for nearly a decade. He is the author of a collaborative pork-noir novel with Stuart Ross called The Pig Sleeps (Contra Mundo Books, 1993), as well as the stunning sequence The Mack Bolan Poems (Gesture Press), which won the first bpNichol Chapbook Award in 1986. The food reviewer for The Vancouver Province, his column “Mark Laba’s Adventures in Dining” appears weekly. Laba has appeared regularly on TV and radio, as well as in urban travel guides, expounding on the delights of greasy-spoon restaurants and peeler-bar buffets. The Mercury Press is proud to present Laba’s book of poetry Dummy Spit.