Shannon Maguire

Shannon Maguire is a poet, editor, and researcher of poetics and gender. Author of two full-length collections of poetry fur(l) parachute and Myrmurs: An Exploded Sestina (both published by Book*hug, Toronto, Canada), their poetry has been a finalist for the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry (2011), the bpNichol Chapbook Award (2012), The Manitoba Magazine Awards (Best Poem or Suite of Poems, 2012). They edited and wrote the critical introduction to Planetary Noise: Selected Poetry of Erín Moure (Wesleyan University Press, USA, 2017) and were the co-guest editor (with Lesley Belleau) for Contemporary Verse Two’s special issue Northern Ontarian Innovative and Indigenous Poetry and Poetics (39.3, Winter 2017).