This book, The Thing in Exile, also contained work by teen writers Steven Feldman and Mark Laba.
As his books began to emerge from larger literary publishing houses, he has continued his Proper Tales Press project.
He is co-founder, with Nicholas Power, of the Toronto Small Press Book Fair, which has been operating since 1987 under various directorships.
Ross is a founding member of the Meet the Presses collective, which formed in 2006 to promote small-press publishing in the Toronto area.
"[2] In 2017, Ross launched a new imprint for surrealist poetry – A Feed Dog Book – through Anvil Press.
In 2017, Ross was the editor of Certain Details: Poetry of Nelson Ball, published by Wilfred Laurier University Press.
won the Exist Through The Gift Shop Award, the only prize given to an anglophone writer that year by the Montreal-based group l'Académie de la vie littéraire au tournant du 21e siècle [fr].