Authors & Headliners

Kelly Shepherd’s third poetry collection, Dog and Moon, was published by Oskana Poetry & Poetics (URegina Press) in spring 2025. His second collection, Insomnia Bird (Thistledown, 2018) won the 2019 Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize. Kelly has written eight chapbooks, most recently Sleep Is a Deep Pool (The Alfred Gustav Press, 2023), and he is a poetry editor for the environmental philosophy journal The Trumpeter. Originally from Smithers, BC, Kelly lives on Treaty 6 territory in Edmonton, and teaches in the English & Communications Department at NAIT.