American-born, Yarrow-based author John Carroll is an Associate Professor of English at the University of the Fraser Valley. He specializes in creative writing, drama, and developmental English. Madding Aphrodite (Ekstasis Editions $25.95) is Carroll's third poetry collection and first novel of ideas fashioned into a long poem.

Rumour Of a Shark (Barbarian Press, 1999)
The Plastic Heart (Ekstasis, 2009)
Madding Aphrodite (Ekstasis Editions 2014) 978-1-77171-030-5

[BCBW 2014]