Ben von Jagow is a writer and poet from Stittsville, Ontario. He is a graduate of Western University, and his work has appeared in Canadian Literature, Queen’s Quarterly, Prairie Fire, Amsterdam Quarterly, The Fiddlehead, EVENT, and the Stockholm Review of Literature, among other publications. His debut poetry collection, Goalie, is forthcoming from Guernica Editions in April 2024. For more of Ben’s work, visit benvj.com.