Ely Shipley graduated from Purdue University with an MFA and holds a PhD from the University of Utah. He taught for many years Baruch College and CUNY in New York City before becoming a professor at Western. Ely is the author of Some Animal from Nightboat Books, Boy with Flowers, winner of the Barrow Street Press book prize judged by Carl Phillips, the Thom Gunn Award, and a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award, and On Beards: A Memoir of Passing, a letterpress chapbook from speCt! Books. His poems and cross-genre work also appear in the Seneca Review, Western Humanities Review, Crazyhorse, Prairie Schooner, Interim, Greensboro Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Witness, DIAGRAM, Gulf Coast, Fugue, Third Coast, and elsewhere.
