Stephen Collis's many books of poetry include The Commons (Talonbooks, 2008; 2014), On the Material (Talonbooks, 2010 - awarded the BC Book Prize for Poetry), DECOMP (with Jordan Scott - Coach House, 2013), and Once in Blockadia (Talonbooks 2016 - nominated for the George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature). He has also written two books of literary criticism, a book of essays on the Occupy Movement, and a novel. Almost Islands is a forthcoming memoir, and a long poem, Sketch of a Poem I Will Not Have Written, is in progress. He lives near Vancouver, on unceded Coast Salish Territory, and teaches poetry and poetics at Simon Fraser University.