Stephen Collis

Stephen Collis is a Canadian poet and professor.[1] Collis is the author of several books of poetry, including On the Material (Talonbooks, 2010) and three parts of the on-going “Barricades Project”: Anarchive (New Star, 2005), The Commons (Talonbooks, 2008, 2014), and To the Barricades (Talonbooks, 2013). He is also the author of three books of non-fiction: Almost Islands: Phyllis Webb and the Pursuit of the Unwritten (Talonbooks, 2018), Dispatches from the Occupation (Talonbooks, 2012), and Phyllis Webb and the Common Good (Talonbooks, 2007). In 2011, he won the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize for the collection On the Material (Talonbooks, 2010).[2] He wrote Mine in 2001, Anarchive in 2005 and The Commons in 2008, and was previously shortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay Award in 2006 for Anarchive.[3]

His 2016 work Once in Blockadia was shortlisted for the 2017 George Ryga Award for Social Awareness.[4] In 2019, he won the Latner Writers' Trust Poetry Prize.[5]

He teaches poetry and American literature at Simon Fraser University.[6]

References
  1. "SFU Faculty page". Simon Fraser University. October 1, 2019. Retrieved October 1, 2019.
  2. "Tsawwassen poet Stephen Collis wins B.C. Book Prize". Delta Optimist, May 11, 2011.
  3. Rebecca Wigod, "Smaller publishers land on BC Book Prizes shortlist". Vancouver Sun, March 18, 2006.
  4. "Ryga Award going strong". BC BookWorld. December 15, 2017. Retrieved September 29, 2019.
  5. Deborah Dundas, "Andre Alexis, Jenny Heijun Wills are big winners at Writers’ Trust Awards". Toronto Star, November 5, 2019.
  6. "SFU Faculty page". Simon Fraser University. October 1, 2019. Retrieved October 1, 2019.


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