Shane Book
Shane Book is a Canadian poet. He was a shortlisted nominee for the 2015 Griffin [Poetry Prize] for his second collection, Congotronic.
Of Trinidadian descent, Book is based in Ottawa. 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.