His debut chapbook How to Appear Perfectly Indifferent While Crying on the Inside (Metatron, 2014) was a bestseller at Montreal’s Drawn & Quarterly, which called it “A collection that will be enjoyed by everyone, fans of poetry or not.” He uses pop culture, emotional intensity, humour, and personal experience to construct relatable contemporary poems. His workshop introduces the essential tools for writing poetry through a step-by-step participatory exercise. This exercise teaches techniques like voice, enjambment, multivalence, form, rhythm, cadence, meter, metaphor, and how to edit. He believes that by breaking poetry down into its component parts, writers will be able to express themselves more effectively. He is also available for readings. Raquel RIVERA, Children's and young adult literature, fiction and non-fiction