Jack Ramey is a poet, performer, and professor at Indiana University SE. His poetry books include The Future Past, Death Sings in the Choir of Light, and the forthcoming Eavesdropping in Plato's Café.

His documentary, William Blake: Inspiration and Vision, won an Aegis award for best educational film.

His new novel, Turtle Island: A Dream of Peace, is an epic story of the downfall of the Onondaga chief Hiawatha after his daughters are murdered, his quest for revenge, his conversion to the cause of peace, and his rise to fame as the charismatic orator who helps unite the warring Iroquois tribes in the first democracy on the American continent.

His article, “The Coffee Planter of St. Domingo: A Technical Manual for the Caribbean Slave Owner,” in the April 2014 issue of TCQ, examines the rhetoric of racism.

In his early years, he was a member of the counter-culture in Santa Cruz, San Francisco, Eugene, Victoria BC, and Kent OH. He then moved to Manhattan to work in the theater. His one-person show Dark Is a Long Way: An Evening with Dylan Thomas ran for two years at the 13th Street Theater in NYC, at the Odyssey Theater in LA, and toured the country. His acting roles in NYC include the stage role of Bunthorne – a parody of Oscar Wilde – in Gilbert and Sullivan’s Patience. Isaac Asimov, a G&S buff, praised his performance as “the best Bunthorne I have ever seen.” He taught in Stockholm for several years. On his return to America, he wrote a screenplay for Black Swan Productions in Chicago, performed in medieval plays with the Chicago Medieval Players, and often read his poetry at the Green Mill, where he was a finalist in the Chicago Slam.