Aaron Tucker

Aaron Tucker’s first book of poetry punchlines was released by Mansfield Press in Spring of 2015. An earlier version of punchlines was released by above/ground in the summer of 2013. His poetic works and reviews have been published across Canada. His previous chapbook, apartments, was shortlisted for the 2010 bpNichol Chapbook award. As well, he is the co-creator of the ChessBard, an app that translates chess games into poems that can be found at chesspoetry.com and is one of the co-contributors on the 3D Poetry Project. His collection of essays Interfacing with the Internet in Popular Cinema was published by Palgrave-Macmillan in July of 2014. In addition, he is a professor in the English department at Ryerson University where he is currently teaching essay writing and digital literacy to first year students. (source: http://aarontucker.ca/bio/)