Shane Book is the author of Congotronic, and Ceiling of Sticks, winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry and the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award. He is also a filmmaker whose award-winning work (Dust (2013) and Praise and Blame (2014)) has screened around the world in numerous film festivals and on television. He was educated at the University of Western Ontario; the University of Victoria; the Iowa Writers’ Workshop; and Stanford University, where he was a Wallace Stegner Fellow. His writing has appeared in numerous journals and magazines and in more than twenty anthologies, including Breathing Fire 2: Canada's New Poets and The Great Black North: Contemporary African Canadian Poetry.
Book has rShane Book is the author of Congotronic, and Ceiling of Sticks, winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry and the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award. He is also a filmmaker whose award-winning work (Dust (2013) and Praise and Blame (2014)) has screened around the world in numerous film festivals and on television. He was educated at the University of Western Ontario; the University of Victoria; the Iowa Writers’ Workshop; and Stanford University, where he was a Wallace Stegner Fellow. His writing has appeared in numerous journals and magazines and in more than twenty anthologies, including Breathing Fire 2: Canada's New Poets and The Great Black North: Contemporary African Canadian Poetry.
Book has received several honours including a New York Times Fellowship in Poetry, Fellowships to the Flaherty Film Seminar and the Telluride Film Festival, an Academy of American Poets Prize, and a National Magazine Award....more