Jim Johnstone (poet)
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Jim Johnstone (born 1978) is a Canadian poet and editor who trained as a reproductive physiologist.[1] He was born in Stouffville, Ontario[2] and is the author of seven collections of poetry.
Johnstone's work has received numerous awards including Arc Poetry Magazine's Readers' Choice Award,[3] a CBC Literary Award,[4] the E. J. Pratt Medal and Prize in Poetry,[5] Matrix Magazine's Lit-Pop Award,[6] the Ralph Gustafson Poetry Prize,[7] and he won This Magazine's Great Canadian Literary Hunt.[8]
Johnstone is the former editor of Misunderstandings Magazine, a literary journal he founded with Ian Williams and Vicki Sloot in 2005,[9] and the former poetry editor for Cactus Press.[10] He is currently the senior poetry editor at Palimpsest Press[11] and the editor-in-chief of Anstruther Press.[12]
