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neil.aitken@gmail.com

Website
neil-aitken.com

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Adults
Secondary (Grades 10-12)

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Neil Aitken

Neil Aitken is the author of two books of poetry, Babbage's Dream (Sundress 2017) and The Lost Country of Sight (Anhinga 2008), which won the Philip Levine Prize. His poetry chapbook, Leviathan (Hyacinth Girl Press 2016) was awarded an Elgin Prize for Sci Fi Poetry. He is the founding editor of Boxcar Poetry Review, creator of Have Book Will Travel (a web resource for authors and reading series), and host of The Lit Fantastic, a podcast about authors and their obsessions. He also co-directs De-Canon: A Visibility Project, a pop-up library, and web resource showcasing work by writers of color. He presently works as a creative writing coach and consultant. Neil has published poetry, essays, and translations in many literary journals and anthologies, as well as on buses, in a mathematics journal, and even as the center piece of a high concept fashion magazine. His poetry has appeared in The Adroit Journal, American Literary Review, The Collagist, Crab Orchard Review, I.T Magazine, Lantern Review, Ninth Letter, Southern Poetry Review, and many other literary journals. Neil holds a PhD in Literature & Creative Writing from the University of Southern California and an MFA in Creative Writing from UC Riverside, as well as a BS in Computer Science with Mathematics minor from Brigham Young University. As a Chinese-English translator, Neil has worked with poet-translator Ming Di to translate The Book of Cranes: Selected Poems of Zang Di (Vagabond 2015) as well as many of Ming Di's own first selected poems, which were published as The River Merchant's Wife (Marick Press 2012). His co-translations of Jiang Hao, Jiang Li, Jiang Tao, Lu De'an, Lu Yue, Sun Wenbo, and Zang Di are also prominently featured in New Cathay: Contemporary Chinese Poetry, 1990-2012 (Tupelo 2013). He was awarded the DJS Translation Prize in 2011 and serves as a contributing editor and board member of Poetry East West. Of Chinese and Scottish descent, Neil was born in Vancouver, BC and grew up in Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, and various parts of the western United States and Canada. He's lived in North Battleford and Regina, and has traveled throughout Saskatchewan.

Publications

Babbage's Dream

Sundress Publications, 2017,

Leviathan

Hyacinth Girl Press, 2016,

The Lost Country of Sight

Anhinga Press, 2008,

Plays

The Edge of a Dream

Company: Los Angeles Opera
City: Los Angeles, California
Effective Year: 2020

Periodicals

American Poetry Journal

Year: 2018
Category: Literary Journal

Moria

Year: 2017
Category: Literary Journal

College Mathematics Journal

Year: 2016
Category: Newspaper/Magazine/Trade Journal

The Adroit Journal

Year: 2016
Category: Literary Journal

The Cossack Review

Year: 2016
Category: Literary Journal

Stirring

Year: 2015
Category: Literary Journal

Tayo Literary Journal

Year: 2015
Category: Literary Journal

diode

Year: 2014
Category: Literary Journal

Eleven Eleven

Year: 2014
Category: Literary Journal

I.T Post Magazine

Year: 2014
Category: Newspaper/Magazine/Trade Journal

Ostrich Review

Year: 2014
Category: Literary Journal

Radar Poetry

Year: 2014
Category: Literary Journal

Stirring

Year: 2014
Category: Literary Journal

Thrush Poetry Journal

Year: 2014
Category: Literary Journal

Anti-

Year: 2013
Category: Literary Journal

Exit 7

Year: 2013
Category: Literary Journal

The Dialogist

Year: 2013
Category: Literary Journal

American Literary Review

Year: 2012
Category: Literary Journal

Kartika Review

Year: 2012
Category: Literary Journal

Lantern Review

Year: 2012
Category: Literary Journal

Likewise Folio

Year: 2012
Category: Literary Journal

RHINO

Year: 2012
Category: Literary Journal

The Normal School

Year: 2012
Category: Literary Journal

Iron Horse Literary Review

Year: 2011
Category: Literary Journal

The Collagist

Year: 2011
Category: Literary Journal

diode

Year: 2009
Category: Literary Journal

Ninth Letter

Year: 2009
Category: Literary Journal

Sunstone

Year: 2009
Category: Literary Journal

Weave

Year: 2009
Category: Literary Journal

Barn Owl Review

Year: 2008
Category: Literary Journal

Pebble Lake Review

Year: 2008
Category: Literary Journal

DMQ Review

Year: 2007
Category: Literary Journal

MiPOesias

Year: 2007
Category: Literary Journal

Redactions

Year: 2007
Category: Literary Journal

Rock & Sling

Year: 2007
Category: Literary Journal

Sou'Wester

Year: 2007
Category: Literary Journal

Stirring

Year: 2007
Category: Literary Journal