Shane Book

Shane Book

Shane Book’s (b. 1970) first collection, Ceiling of Sticks, won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize and the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award. His second volume, Congotronic, won the Archibald Lampman Award and was shortlisted for the Canadian Authors Association Award, Ottawa Book Award, and Griffin Poetry Prize. He is also a filmmaker whose awardwinning work has screened at film festivals and on television around the world. He was educated at New York University, the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and Stanford University, where he was a Wallace Stegner Fellow. He was the 2016- 2017 Writer-in-Residence at the University of Calgary and is now an associate professor in the Department of Writing at the University of Victoria.