Neil Aitken

Neil Aitken (born 1974 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian poet, editor, and translator. He founded Boxcar Poetry Review.[1][2] His first book, The Lost Country of Sight, won the 2007 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry.[3][4]

Neil Aitken
Born1974
Vancouver
NationalityCanadian
OccupationPoet, editor, and translator

Biography

Early life and education

Aitken was born in Vancouver in 1974[5] and was raised in Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, Canada, and the United States.[1][6] His father was of Scottish and English descent and his mother was of Chinese descent.[7] He had a younger sister.[7] He attended elementary and secondary school in Regina.[7] Throughout high school, he enjoyed painting.[8] As an undergraduate, he studied Computer Engineering with a minor in Mathematics.[7]

He worked as a computer games programmer for several years.[7] In 2004, he quit his position to study at the University of California, Riverside, where he earned an MFA.[7] He earned a PhD in Literature & Creative Writing from the University of Southern California.[9]

Literature career

Aitken's first book, The Lost Country of Sight, won the 2007 Philip Levine Prize.[3] In 2016, he published Baggage's Dream, a semi-finalist for the Anthony Hecht Prize.[9] He founded Boxcar Poetry Review.[1] Aitken and Chinese poet-translator Ming Di translated The Book of Cranes: Selected Poems of Zang Di.[9] In 2011, Aitken was awarded the DJS Translation Prize for "his translations of contemporary Chinese poetry."[9]

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gollark: I mean, I'm pretty sure perfect secure simulators are *possible*, just *really impractical*.
gollark: You'd also have to be sure that all the libraries you used were fully safe and secure.
gollark: That seems... extremely.
gollark: I can't see a way you could do anything, but that probably just means my model of your hypothetical system is incomplete rather than that it would actually be entirely secure.

See also

References
  1. "Neil Aitken". anhinga press. Retrieved 2016-05-15.
  2. "2 Poets, 4 Questions: Q&A with Neil Aitken and Rumit Pancholi – Lantern Review Blog". www.lanternreview.com. Retrieved 2016-05-15.
  3. "Neil Aitken on Poets Cafe". Timothy Green. 2011-04-16. Archived from the original on 2017-05-17. Retrieved 2016-05-15.
  4. "Reading & Discussion: Neil Aitken "The Sound of a Distant Engine: Writing Babbage & Lovelace into Poetry" – DigLibArts". diglibarts.whittier.edu. Retrieved 2016-05-15.
  5. "Neil Aitken - featured poets -- poeticdiversity.org". www.poeticdiversity.org. Retrieved 2016-05-15.
  6. "September 2014 Neil Aitken". Thrush Poetry Journal. Retrieved 2016-05-15.
  7. "TCK TALENT: Neil Aitken, Computer Gaming Whiz Kid Turned Award-Winning Poet". The Displaced Nation. 2015-04-29. Retrieved 2016-05-15.
  8. wpadmin. "Interview with Neil Aitken". Retrieved 2016-05-15.
  9. "Neil Aitken | Total Visits 376 | Have Book Will Travel". Have Book Will Travel. 2015-12-23. Retrieved 2016-05-15.
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