Jack Ross

Ross is little known outside New Zealand avante garde literary circles. He was described by Richard Reeve in Landfall as "a leading contributor to the field of experimental writing in New Zealand", Mark Houlahan remarked in New Zealand Books [15 (2) (June 2005): 14–15], that "Nobody else in New Zealand writes quite like Ross, though some of Bill Manhire's fictions in The New Land are precedents." Other reviewers have been less positive: Laurence Jenkins wrote that "Not all the contents are evil, but the spirit of darkness certainly prevails," about Nights with Giordano Bruno [in JAAM 16 (2001): 185]. According to Joe Wylie "Outside of literati farm, this sort of thing has a very limited life expectancy ... Can Ross move beyond this? Does he choose not to?" [Takahe 54 (2005) 63].

From 2002 to 2005 Ross was editor of the literary magazine brief. He has also edited other literary magazines The Pander (co-editor 1998–99), Spin (co-editor 1999–2003), Landfall (guest editor: issue 214, 2007), and Poetry NZ (guest editor: issue 38, 2008).

Jack Ross (born 6 November 1962 in Auckland), is a New Zealand poet, novelist, translator, editor and lecturer in creative writing. A trilogy of novels has been published by two different publishers, Alan Brunton's Bumper Books (Volume 1) and Titus Books.