From the cover of "The Lateral": Jake Kennedy's writing has appeared in "McSweeney's Internet Tendency," "Pissing Ice Anthology: New Canadian Poets," "Drunken Boat," "Kiss Machine," and "The Diagram." His BookThug chapbook entitled "Hazard" won the 2006 bpNichol Chapbook Award. Jake also helped edit, with his artist friend Paola Poletto, "Boredom Fighters: A Graphic Poem Anthology" (Tightrope Books) in 2008.