Jack Ross (writer)

Jack Ross (born 6 November 1962) is a New Zealand poet, novelist, translator, editor and lecturer in creative writing.

Born on Auckland's North Shore, Ross was raised and educated in the East Coast Bays.

He is a Lecturer specialising in Academic and Creative Writing at Massey University's Albany campus.

Other reviewers have been less positive: Laurence Jenkins wrote that "Not all the contents are evil, but the spirit of darkness certainly prevails," about Nights with Giordano Bruno [in JAAM 16 (2001): 185].

According to Joe Wylie "Outside of literati farm, this sort of thing has a very limited life expectancy ... Can Ross move beyond this?

Ross in 1998, holding a copy of his poetry collection, City of Strange Brunettes , published that year