Ely Shipley is an author and poet who has been featured in multiple literary journals. He has additionally published his own works and has received several awards for those works.

Biography

Ely Shipley received an MFA from

Purdue University Purdue University is a public land-grant research university in West Lafayette, Indiana, and the flagship campus of the Purdue University system. The university was founded in 1869 after Lafayette businessman John Purdue donated land and money ...

and a PhD from the

University of Utah The University of Utah (U of U, UofU, or simply The U) is a public research university in Salt Lake City, Utah. It is the flagship institution of the Utah System of Higher Education. The university was established in 1850 as the University of De ...

. He is currently a professor at Western Washington University. He was previously an assistant professor at Baruch College.

Awards and appearances

Ely Shipley has been nominated and received several awards for his publications. For ''Boy with Flowers'', published by The Barrow Street Press in 2008, he won the Barrow Street Press book prize. He also won the 2009 Thom Gunn Award and several prizes from different publications. He was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for ''Boy with Flowers''. He has also received the ''Western Humanities Review'' Award in Poetry from the Prairie Schooner for his works. He has been featured at multiple events, including at Cornell University and Stanford University.

Publications

Poetry

*''Boy with Flowers'' (2008) *''On Beards: A Memoir of Passing'' (2015) *''Some Animal'' (2018)

References

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