John Riddell's first published story appeared in 1963 and his work has continued to appear ever since in little magazines like Kontakte, Ganglia, Descant, NBR Showcase and grOnk. An early associate of Ganglia magazine, he later became a contibuting editor of grOnk and then, in 1975, co-founded, with Richard Truhlar, Phenomenon Press. He has had visual work in exhibition in Europe and Canada and was included in the first Canadian anthology of concrete poetry, The Cosmic Chef. Criss-Cross is his first collection of stories, a long-over-due debut by one of our most striking new fictioneers.
John Riddell's first published story appeared in 1963 and his work has continued to appear ever since in little magazines like Kontakte, Ganglia, Descant, NBR Showcase and grOnk. An early associate of Ganglia magazine, he later became a contibuting editor of grOnk and then, in 1975, co-founded, with Richard Truhlar, Phenomenon Press. He has had visual work in exhibition in Europe and Canada and was included in the first Canadian anthology of concrete poetry, The Cosmic Chef. Criss-Cross is his first collection of stories, a long-over-due debut by one of our most striking new fictioneers.