Darren Wershler is a Canadian experimental poet, non-fiction writer and cultural critic.

A former grave digger, he was the senior editor of Coach House Books between 1997 and 2002, where the works he edited included several highly acclaimed books of contemporary innovative poetry, including Fidget by Kenneth Goldsmith (2000), both volumes of Seven Pages Missing, the collected works of Steve McCaffery (2000, 2002), Lip Service by Bruce Andrews (2001), and Eunoia by Christian Bök (2002).

Wershler-Henry’s The Tapeworm Foundry was a Trillium Book Award finalist in 2000. He has instructed courses at York University and currently is an Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University. He has authored several books about the Internet, technology and culture, as well as occasional essays on pop culture for newspapers and magazines such as Brick, Broken Pencil and This Magazine.

He lives in Kitchener-Waterloo.