Jack Ross retired from his job as Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Massey University in 2022. He has published six books of poems, three novellas, three novels - Nights with Giordano Bruno (2000), The Imaginary Museum of Atlantis (2006) and EMO (2008) - and three collections of short fiction, most recently Haunts (2024). Ross has also edited a number of anthologies and literary journals, including Landfall and Poetry New Zealand.

Michael Steven has described him as a "maverick translator", while Michael Morrissey had this to say about him: "Tired of airport books? Bored by Tom Clancy and Dan Brown? Wearied by puerile web sites? Seeking a challenge? Try a 'novel' by Dr Jack Ross" -- Investigate.

His novel-as-twin-novellas, The Annotated Tree Worship (2017), was highly commended in the 2018 NZSA Heritage Book Awards. He blogs at mairangibay.blogspot.com.