Eric Schmaltz holds a PhD in English from York University and, from 2018-19, he was a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of English at the University of Pennsylvania. He is co-editor of the critical edition I Want to Tell You Love by bill bissett and Milton Acorn (University of Calgary Press) and author of Surfaces (Invisible Publishing). His academic writing has appeared in Jacket2, English Studies in Canada, Canadian Poetry, Canadian Literature, Forum and the edited collection All the Feels / Tous les sens. He is a sessional lecturer in English at York University (Glendon College).