Ely Shipley

Last updated

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.

Contents

Biography

Ely Shipley received an MFA from Purdue University and a PhD from the University of Utah. He is currently a professor at Western Washington University. He was previously an assistant professor at Baruch College. [1]

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. [2] [3] He was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Boy with Flowers. [1] [4] He has also received the Western Humanities Review Award in Poetry from the Prairie Schooner for his works. [5] He has been featured at multiple events, including at Cornell University and Stanford University. [1] [6]

Publications

Poetry

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lambda Literary Award</span> Award for published works which celebrate or explore LGBT themes

Lambda Literary Awards, also known as the "Lammys", are awarded yearly by Lambda Literary to recognize the crucial role LGBTQ writers play in shaping the world. The Lammys celebrate the very best in LGBTQ literature. The awards were instituted in 1989.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Nicola Griffith</span> British-American writer (b. 1960)

Nicola Griffith is a British-American novelist, essayist, and teacher. She has won the Washington State Book Award, Nebula Award, James Tiptree, Jr. Award, World Fantasy Award and six Lambda Literary Awards.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mark Doty</span> American poet and memoirist

Mark Doty is an American poet and memoirist best known for his work My Alexandria. He was the winner of the National Book Award for Poetry in 2008.

The Cholmondeley Awards are annual awards for poetry given by the Society of Authors in the United Kingdom. Awards honour distinguished poets, from a fund endowed by the Dowager Marchioness of Cholmondeley in 1966. Since 1991 the award has been made to four poets each year, to the total value of £8000.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Rigoberto González</span> American writer and book critic (born 1970)

Rigoberto González is an American writer and book critic. He is an editor and author of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and bilingual children's books, and self-identifies in his writing as a gay Chicano. His most recent project is Abuela in Shadow, Abuela in Light, a literary memoir. His previous memoir What Drowns the Flowers in Your Mouth: A Memoir of Brotherhood was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Autobiography. He is the 2015 recipient of the Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Publishing Triangle, and the 2020 recipient of the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Carl Phillips</span> American writer and poet (born 1959)

Carl Phillips is an American writer and poet. He is a Professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis.

John R. Keene Jr. is a writer, translator, professor, and artist who was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2018. His 2022 poetry collection, Punks: New and Selected Poems, received the National Book Award for Poetry.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Etel Adnan</span> Lebanese-American writer and artist (1925–2021)

Etel Adnan was a Lebanese-American poet, essayist, and visual artist. In 2003, Adnan was named "arguably the most celebrated and accomplished Arab American author writing today" by the academic journal MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Samiya Bashir</span> American writer

Samiya A. Bashir is an American lesbian poet and author. Much of Bashir's poetry explores the intersections of culture, change, and identity through the lens of race, gender, the body and sexuality. She is currently Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Reed College in Portland, Oregon.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Eduardo C. Corral</span> American English professor and poet

Eduardo C. Corral is an American poet and MFA Assistant Professor in the Department of English at NC State University. His first collection, Slow Lightning, published by Yale University Press, was the winner of the 2011 Yale Younger Series Poets award, making him the first Latino recipient of this prize. His 2020 work, guillotine, was awarded the 2021 Lambda Literary Award for gay poetry and was longlisted for the 2020 National Book Award for Poetry.

Brian Blanchfield is an American poet and essayist.

Nightboat Books is an American nonprofit literary press founded in 2004 and located in Brooklyn, New York. The press publishes poetry, fiction, essays, translations, and intergenre books.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Danez Smith</span> American poet

Danez Smith is a "poet", writer and performer from St. Paul, Minnesota. He is queer, non-binary and HIV-positive. They are the author of the poetry collections [insert] Boy and Don't Call Us Dead: Poems, both of which have received multiple awards. Their most recent poetry collection Homie was published on January 21, 2020.

Daniel Borzutzky is a Chicago-based poet and translator. His collection The Performance of Becoming Human won the 2016 National Book Award. The son of Chilean immigrants, Borzutzky's work often addresses immigration, worker exploitation, political corruption, and economic disparity.

<i>Troubling the Line</i>

Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics a collection of poetry by transgender and genderqueer writers, edited by TC Tolbert and Trace Peterson. The collection itself contains some of the works by 55 different poets along with a "poetics statement", a reflection by each poet that provides context for their work. The book was published in 2013 by Nightboat Books. The collection was reviewed by Stephanie Burt on Poetry Foundation's website. It has been called "the first-ever collection of poetry by trans and genderqueer poets." An earlier anthology, “Of Souls and Roles, Of Sex and Gender," was compiled by trans activist Rupert Raj between 1982 and 1991, but remains available only in manuscript form at The ArQuives: Canada's LGBQT2+ Archives and at the Transgender Archives, University of Victoria.

Vi Khi Nao is a cross-genre writer from Long Khánh, Vietnam. She is a graduate of the MFA program at Brown University, where she received the John Hawkes Prize, the Feldman Prize and the Kim Ann Arstark Memorial Award. She was the 2022 recipient of Lambda Literary's Jim Duggins, PhD Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dorothy Chan</span> Poet and author based in Eau Claire

Dorothy Chan is an American poet, author, editor, and scholar based in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Chan's work has appeared in Poetry (magazine), The American Poetry Review, Academy of American Poets, and elsewhere. Chan has published four works of poetry: Revenge of the Asian Woman, Attack of the Fifty-Foot Centerfold, BABE, and the chapbook Chinatown Sonnets. In 2018, Chan became Hobart Poetry Editor and later joined the English department faculty at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire in 2019 as Assistant Professor of Creative Writing. She is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Honey Literary, a BIPOC-focused journal built by women of color.

Cyrée Jarelle Johnson is an American poet, editor, and librarian. He co-founded the literary magazine Deaf Poets Society and is currently a librarian at Pratt Institute. His debut poetry collection Slingshot received a Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry.

Rosamond S. King is an American poet and literary theorist. She is a literature professor at Brooklyn College, where her courses focus on Caribbean and African literature, sexuality, and performance. In 2017, she won the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry for her debut poetry collection, Rock | Salt | Stone.

Jenny Johnson is an American queer poet.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Ely Shipley". www.elyshipley.org. Retrieved 2018-10-25.
  2. Shipley, Ely (2012-07-03). "Ely Shipley". Ely Shipley. Retrieved 2018-09-20.
  3. "Nightboat Books". nightboat.org. Archived from the original on 2018-10-25. Retrieved 2018-10-25.
  4. Editor, Poetry (2012-02-07). "Ely Shipley, "Night a ladder we climb to reach"". Lambda Literary. Retrieved 2018-10-25.{{cite news}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  5. "Ely Shipley - The Department of English - Weissman School of Arts and Sciences - Baruch College". www.baruch.cuny.edu. Retrieved 2018-10-25.
  6. University, Office of Web Communications, Cornell. "TRANS*forming Literature: a reading & conversation with Ryka Aoki, Helen Boyd, & Ely Shipley". Cornell. Retrieved 2018-10-25.