Shane Book is a Canadian poet.
[1] He was a shortlisted nominee for the 2015 Griffin Poetry Prize for his second collection, Congotronic.
[2] Of Trinidadian descent,[1] Book is based in Ottawa.
[3] His first poetry collection, Ceiling of Sticks, was published in 2010, and he was a finalist for the CBC Literary Awards in 2011 for "Almost Spain".
at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.