Stephen Cain is an Assistant Professor in the School of Arts and Letters, at the Atkinson Faculty of Liberal and Professional Studies, York University. He currently teaches Modern and avant-garde literatures, as well as an inter-media course on narrative. Previous to his York appointment, Cain was an Assistant Professor at Wilfrid Laurier University (Brantford) where he taught Canadian Literature and Prose Fiction. He has also been an instructor at Wilfrid Laurier (Waterloo) and at Seneca College where he has taught Canadian Studies, Canadian Women’s Writing, Introduction to Poetry, Canadian Fiction, and Composition. Cain’s dissertation was on Coach House and House of Anansi Presses, and he specializes in the field of cultural production, including matters of book design, distribution, promotion and other paratextual issues, as well as the culture of the small and micro presses in Canada. Other fields include Poetry and Poetics, Modern and Contemporary Literature, and Canadian Literature. With Tim Conley, he has written The Encyclopedia of Fictional and Fantastic Languages which has just appeared from Greenwood Press in 2006. He is also at work, with Steve McCaffery, on The Zebras Progress: The Dick Higgins/ Steve McCaffery Correspondence (1976-1998). He was the editor of a special issue of Open Letter on "The Little Literary Serial in Canada (1980-2000)" and his academic articles have appeared in Studies in Canadian Literature, Open Letter, and as chapters in the books Sound As Sense (Peter Lang, 2003) and The Canadian Modernists Meet (U of Ottawa, 2005). He also contributed several entries in The Encyclopedia of American Poetry and The Ezra Pound Encyclopedia. Cain is the recipient of several academic awards and grants including, in 2001, The York English Teaching Assistant Award.