Ely Shipley

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Ely Shipley
Occupation
  • Author
  • poet
NationalityAmerican
Education Purdue University (MFA)
University of Utah (PhD)

Ely Shipley is an American 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.

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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

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References

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  2. "Ely Shipley". poets.org. 2012-07-03. Retrieved 2018-09-20.
  3. "Nightboat Books". nightboat.org. Archived from the original on 2018-10-25. Retrieved 2018-10-25.
  4. "Ely Shipley, 'Night a ladder we climb to reach'". Lambda Literary. 2012-02-07. Retrieved 2018-10-25.
  5. "Ely Shipley - The Department of English - Weissman School of Arts and Sciences". Baruch College. Retrieved 2018-10-25.
  6. "TRANS*forming Literature: a reading & conversation with Ryka Aoki, Helen Boyd, & Ely Shipley". Cornell University. Retrieved 2018-10-25.