Authors & Headliners

Shane Book is the current writer in residence at the University of Calgary. His first poetry collection, Ceiling of Sticks, won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize and Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award. His second, Congotronic, won the Lampman Award and was shortlisted for the Canadian Authors Association Award, Ottawa Book Award, and 2015 Griffin Poetry Prize. His first film, Dust, won prizes at numerous festivals worldwide. His second, Praise and Blame, premiered in 2016. He was educated at NYU, the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and Stanford.