Jesse Ferguson is a fourth year English Literature major at the University of Ottawa.  He was raised in Cornwall, Ontario, and has been writing poetry and songs for roughly five years.  He is currently studying creative writing under the poet Seymour Mayne, and his work has appeared in the University of Ottawa’s magazines Nexus, Innuendo and Yawp (he is now on the editorial board of the latter).  In January, 2005 he will begin reviewing for the Ottawa literary journal, Bywords.  Some of his poems also appear in such Canadian, American and UK publications as: Yalla, Redfez.com, Ygdrasil, Stridemagazine, High Altitude Poetry, The Big Tex[t], Magazineshiver and are slated to appear in Carillon Magazine, and Saucyvox.