Ely Shipley

Ely Shipley is the author of Some Animal (Nightboat, 2018) and Boy with Flowers (Barrow Street Press, 2008), selected by Carl Phillips as the winner of the Barrow Street Press book prize. He is also the recipient of the 2009 Thom Gunn Award, the Utah Writer’s Award in Poetry from the Western Humanities Review, and the Virginia Faulkner Award from Prairie Schooner.He teaches and lives in Bellingham, Washington.