Ely Shipley is an American author and poet who has been featured in multiple literary journals.
[1] Ely Shipley has been nominated and received several awards for his publications.
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.