Eric Ormsby is the author of five collections of poetry, the latest of which is Daybreak at the Straits (Zoo Press, 2004). He was a professor of Islamic Studies at McGill University for twenty years and now lives in London. His new and selected poems appear from Carcanet Press in 2011.

Eric Ormsby's work featured in PN Review comprises one contribution of poetry and two reviews, over a period of two years.