Shane Neilson

Contributing Author

Shane Neilson is a disabled poet, physician, and critic who lives in Oakville, Ontario. He completed his PhD in English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University in 2018. Shane's latest book, New Brunswick, was published by Biblioasis in the Spring of 2019. His previous book, Dysphoria (PQL, 2017) was awarded the Hamilton Literary Award for Poetry in 2018. He is currently completing a postdoctoral position at McMaster as part of the 'Talent' grant awarded by SSHRC in 2018. Shane published Constructive Negativity (Palimpsest Press), the first book of literary criticism devoted to disability in Canada, also this year. He is the festival director of the AbleHamilton Poetry Festival which just successfully completed its second run. He edits for Hamilton Arts & Letters magazine. Finally, he is also the Poetry Advisor for the Canadian Medical Association Journal where he actively works to include poems by disabled writers.

 

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