Ken Stange

Ken Stange is a writer, visual artist, occasional scientific researcher, and Professor Emeritus at Nipissing University. His works include poetry, fiction, arts journalism, scientific research reports, computer programs, philosophical essays, visual art, and a weekly blog about interesting ideas ("Your Man Friday's Ideas"). And he has literally hundreds of periodical publications. His 14 books are works of poetry, fiction and non-fiction. (He won the 2011 Exile/Vanderbilt prize for short fiction.)

He also has had articles in computer magazines, written commercial software for test evaluation, been an Arts columnist, as well as published in refereed scientific journals on empirical aesthetics, statistics, and computer research applications. He has presented papers at numerous international conferences, most of which relate to creativity, and in 2011 gave a TEDx talk on “Redefining Creativity”. He was the founder and editor of Nebula Magazine from 1975 to 1984.

He loves dogs and cycling.