HA&L Biographical Sketch • Shane Neilson

HA&L Biographical Sketch Shane Neilson • HA&L Associate Editor Shane Neilson is a disabled poet, physician, and critic. He lives in Oakville, Ontario. He completed his PhD in English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University in 2018. A previous book, Dysphoria (PQL, 2017) was awarded the Hamilton Literary Award for Poetry in 2018. Other good things to happen to Shane include receiving the Governor General’s Gold Medal for his dissertation work in disability studies and the Regional Dean’s Award for Excellence in Medical Education which was also bestowed for Shane’s championing of disability in McMaster’s medical faculty. He is the festival director of the AbleHamilton Poetry Festival which successfully completed its second run in 2019. He is also the Poetry Advisor for the Canadian Medical Association Journal where he actively works to include poems by disabled writers. His poems appeared in Poetry Magazine in April of this year. Work from his latest book, New Brunswick, has appeared on Verse Daily. Now enjoy a book review Zero Chronology: Notes on the Use of Time in Casey Plett’s Little Fish by Shane Neilson >>> + [This HA&L biographical sketch and introduction © 2020-21 SN.]