Poetry Bio
Shane Book’s first collection, Ceiling of Sticks (University of Nebraska Press), won the
Prairie Schooner Book Prize and the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers
Award and was a Poetry Society of America “New American Poet” Selection. He is a
graduate of New York University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and was a Wallace
Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. His work has appeared in seventeen anthologies
and over forty-five magazines in the U.S., U.K., and Canada and on film. He has received
scholarships to the MacDowell Colony, Brazil’s Sacatar Foundation, the Breadloaf
Writers’ Conference, Naropa University’s Summer Writing Program and Cave Canem.
His honors include a New York Times Fellowship in Poetry, Fellowships to the Flaherty
Film Seminar and the Telluride Film Festival, an Academy of American Poets Prize, and
a National Magazine Award. He has taught at New York University, Randolph-Macon
Women’s College, the University of Iowa, Temple University and Stanford University
and is currently Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at Saint Mary’s College of California.
Poetry and Film Bio
Shane Book is a poet and filmmaker. His first collection, Ceiling of Sticks (University of
Nebraska Press), won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize and the Great Lakes Colleges
Association New Writers Award and was a Poetry Society of America “New American
Poet” Selection. His first short film, based on a poem in the book, was nominated for
Best Narrative at the 2011 Diamond Screen Film Festival. He is a graduate of New York
University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at
Stanford University. His work has appeared in seventeen anthologies and over forty-five
magazines in the U.S., U.K., and Canada. He has received scholarships to the MacDowell
Colony, Brazil’s Sacatar Foundation, the Breadloaf Writers’ Conference, Naropa
University’s Summer Writing Program and Cave Canem. His honors include a New York
Times Fellowship in Poetry, Fellowships to the Flaherty Film Seminar and the Telluride
Film Festival, an Academy of American Poets Prize, and a National Magazine Award. He
has taught at New York University, Randolph-Macon Women’s College, the University
of Iowa, Temple University and Stanford University and is currently Distinguished
Writer-in-Residence at Saint Mary’s College of California.
Shorter Bio
Shane Book’s first collection, Ceiling of Sticks, won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize and
the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award and was a Poetry Society of
America “New American Poet” Selection. He is a graduate of New York University and
the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.
His work has appeared in seventeen anthologies and over forty-five magazines in the
U.S., U.K., and Canada and on film. His honors include a New York Times Fellowship in
Poetry, Fellowships to the Flaherty Film Seminar and the Telluride Film Festival, an
Academy of American Poets Prize, and a National Magazine Award.