Shane Book is a Canadian poet."For an emerging poet like Shane Book, winning the Griffin Prize would be a life-changing event". The Globe and Mail, June 2, 2015. He was a shortlisted nominee for the 2015 Griffin Poetry Prize for his second collection, Congotronic."Fresh voices vie for rich poetry award". The Globe and Mail, April 8, 2015.
Of Trinidadian descent, Book is based in Ottawa."Nepean poet to vie for CBC Literary Award". Ottawa Citizen, March 2, 2011. His first poetry collection, Ceiling of Sticks, was published in 2010, and he was a finalist for the CBC Literary Awards in 2011 for "Almost Spain". He obtained his M.F.A. at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.
Bibliography Ceiling of Sticks. University of Nebraska Press, 2010. Congotronic. University of Iowa Press, 2014. All Black Everything. University of Iowa Press, 2023.
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External links Biography, poetry excerpts from Griffin Poetry Prize website