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Chris Banks (born 1970) is a Canadian poet.


Life


Banks' childhood was spent in the small Ontario towns of Stayner, Sioux Lookout, and Bancroft. He received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Guelph, before moving on to complete a Masters of Arts in Creative Writing from Concordia University and later a Bachelor of Education from the University of Western Ontario. Banks later began teaching at Bluevale Collegiate Institute in Waterloo, Ontario.


Works/Books


Banks' works include a chapbook, Form Letters (2002). His first full-length collection, Bonfires, was awarded the Jack Chalmers Award for poetry by the Canadian Authors' Association in 2004. Bonfires was also a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Award for best first book of poetry in Canada. His most recent collection of poems Deepfake Serenade was published by Nightwood Editions in the fall of 2021. He lives in Kitchener, Ontario, where he writes, and teaches at Bluevale Collegiate Institute.


Awards and recognition



Bibliography



See also



References


  1. "Canadian Authors Association: Poetry award winners list". Archived from the original on 2013-11-06. Retrieved 2011-10-28.
  2. 2006 KW Arts Award Winners Archived April 25, 2012, at the Wayback Machine







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