Sault Ste. Marie-born Mat Laporte is a writer and musician, and co-founder of the micro-press Ferno House. Laporte is the author of a tetralogy of chapbooks: Demons, Billboards from Hell, Life Savings (nominated for the 2013 bpNichol Chapbook Award), and Bad Infinity. His poetry has been featured in numerous publications, including Poetry is Dead, The Puritan, and the Lemon Hound blog. RATS NEST, Laporte's first full-length book, is forthcoming from BookThug in the fall of 2016.