Yashin Blake is one of the many people you see on the subway wearing headphones, writing in a spiral notebook, or staring blankly at a stack of printed pages. He is the author of Titanium Punch and Nowhere Fast. A Literacy and Basic Skills Instructor at the Toronto East Detention Centre, Blake is inspired by a lifelong love of reading, and listening to heavy music by bands such as Unsane, Madball, and Motorhead.