Kelly Shepherd

Kelly Shepherd has written eight chapbooks, and he is a poetry editor for the environmental philosophy journal The Trumpeter. He has a Creative Writing MFA from UBC Okanagan (with a thesis on the intersections of ecopoetry and work poetry), and an MA in Religious Studies from the University of Alberta (with a thesis on sacred geography). Originally from Smithers, British Columbia, Kelly currently lives and teaches on Treaty 6 territory, in Edmonton. Insomnia Bird (Thistledown Press, 2018), his poetry collection, won the 2019 Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize. 

• Edmonton Alberta Canada