Shane Neilson is a poet, physician, and literary critic who lives with disability. Shane’s poetry has received several accolades, including the Hamilton Literary Award for Poetry in 2018; The Walrus Poetry Prize in 2017, and in 2011, he was shortlisted for the Trillium Poetry Prize. Shane lives in Oakville, Ontario.

"Shane Neilson's WILL is bookish, brilliant, and bawdy. Read this book." -- Michael Winter

"A certain urgency and ferocity of emotion animate all of Shane Neilson's work" -- Steven Heighton