Shane Book

Shane Book’s first poetry collection, Ceiling of Sticks (University of Nebraska Press, 2010), won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize and the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award. His second collection, Congotronic (University of Iowa Press/House of Anansi Press, 2014), is a finalist for the Canadian Authors Association Award, the Ottawa Book Award, the Lampman Award and the 2015 Griffin Poetry Prize. He is also a filmmaker whose award-winning work has screened on television and in film festivals around the world.