Jim Johnstone (poet)

Jim Johnstone (born 1978) is a reproductive physiologist and Canadian poet. He was born in Stouffville, Ontario[1] and is the author of four collections of poetry.

Johnstone's work has received numerous awards including Arc Poetry Magazine's Readers' Choice Award,[2] a CBC Literary Award,[3] the E. J. Pratt Medal and Prize in Poetry, Matrix Magazine's Lit-Pop Award,[4] the Ralph Gustafson Poetry Prize,[5] and he won This Magazine's Great Canadian Literary Hunt.[6]

Johnstone is the former editor of Misunderstandings Magazine, a literary journal he founded with Ian Williams and Vicki Sloot in 2005, and the former poetry editor for Cactus Press.[7]