John KinsellaJohn Kinsella is the author of MORPHEUS: A BILDUNGSROMAN (BlazeVOX [books], 2013), as well as many books of poetry, fiction, criticism and plays. He is a frequent collaborator with other poets, critics, fictionalists, artists, musicians, laborers, acivists and friends. Recent fiction includes In the Shade of the Shady Tree (Ohio University Press, 2012), recent poetry includes Jam Tree Gully (W.W. Norton, 2012), and recent criticism includes Activist Poetics: Anarchy in the Avon Valley (ed. Niall Lucy, Liverpool University Press, 2010). He is a Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia, a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge University, and the poetry editor for the literary journal Island. But most relevantly, he is an anarchist- vegan-pacifist. Kinsella's activism against racism and bigotry began in his late teens when he was working on the first manifestation of MORPHEUS. Read More Read Less