Jump Scare

At once raw and skillful, painful and funny, personal and pervasive, the poems in Jump Scare dig deep into mental health, neurodivergence, grief, dreams, monstrosity, sexuality, pop culture, queer consumer culture, and the commodification of identity. This is a book that tackles isolation and loss head-on and thinks hard and with wry humour about how to position ourselves in this lonely, scary, compelling world.

Daniel Zomparelli is the founder of Poetry Is Dead magazine. His first book of poems, Davie Street Translations, was published by Talonbooks in 2012. He is a former co-podcaster at Can't Lit with Dina Del Bucchia, with whom he co-wrote Rom Com. His collection of short stories, Everything Is Awful and You're a Terrible Person, was nominated for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, won the ReLit Short Fiction Award, and has been translated into German, French, and Spanish. Daniel's podcast I'm Afraid That was listed as one of the best podcasts of 2018 by Esquire and featured as a podcast to listen to on the A.V. Club and BBC America. He recently edited Queer Little Nightmares with David Ly. He currently lives in Los Angeles.