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In-Person Conference

Shane Book is a poet, filmmaker and professor in the Department of Writing at the University of Victoria. His first collection, Ceiling of Sticks, was a Poetry Society of America “New Poet” Selection and won the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award and the Prairie Schooner Book Prize. His second volume, Congotronic, won the Archibald Lampman Award and was a finalist for the Canadian Authors Association Award, Ottawa Book Award, and Griffin Poetry Prize. His award-winning films have screened at more than fifty film festivals around the world and on television. He has been Writer-in-Residence at Randolph-Macon Women’s College in Virginia, Saint Mary’s College of California and the University of Calgary. And he has taught at a number of institutions, including the University of California, Berkeley, New York University, Western Kentucky University, Temple University and Stanford University. In 2024, he was Visiting Professor of Poetry at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. The American edition of his new poetry collection, All Black Everything, was recently published by the University of Iowa Press.

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