Zachariah Wells

Zachariah Wells(born 10 September 1976)is aCanadianpoet,critic,essayistandeditor.

Wells was bornCharlottetown,Prince Edward Islandand was raised in the rural community ofHazel Grove.He attended high school inOttawa,Ontarioand university inHalifax,Nova Scotia.As an undergraduate, he spent summers working inIqaluit,Nunavutas an airline cargo handler. After a brief stint at graduate school inMontreal,Quebec,he returned to Iqaluit in 2001 and then to the remote settlement ofResolute,onCornwallis Islanduntil 2003, eventually relocating to Halifax with his wife,Rachel Lebowitz.

Wells has contributed to periodicals includingBooks in Canada,Quill & QuireandMaisonneuve.His firstchapbookofpoems,Fool's Errand,was published in 2004 as well as his full-length collection ofArcticpoems,Unsettled.

In 2006 Wells became the Reviews Editor forCanadian Notes & Queries.In 2007 he publishedSealift,a CD recording of 24 poems fromUnsettled;"Achromatope," a letterpress broadside; andAfter the Blizzard,a limited edition chapbook. In the spring of 2008,Jailbreaks,his anthology of Canadian sonnets, was published.Anything But Hank!,the children's book he co-wrote with Lebowitz, with illustrations by Eric Orchard, was published in the fall. In 2009, Wells publishedTrack & Trace,his second trade collection of poems, with illustrations by renowned graphic artistSeth.Track & Tracewas shortlisted for the 2010 Atlantic Poetry Prize. In 2010, he publishedThe Essential Kenneth Leslie,the first collection of Leslie's poems to be published since 1972.

Bibliography

• Fool's Errand(chapbook), Charlottetown: Saturday Morning Chapbooks, 2004
• Unsettled(trade paperback), Toronto: Insomiac Press, 2004
• Ludicrous Parole(chapbook), Montreal: Mercutio Press, 2005
• Huginn & Muninn(lithographed broadside, in collaboration with Margaret Flood), Halifax: privately printed, 2005.
• Sealift(audio CD), Vancouver: Avatar Records, 2007.
• Achromatope(letterpress broadside), Victoria: Frog Hollow Press, 2007.
• After the Blizzard(chapbook), Peterborough: Littlefishcart Press, 2008.
• Jailbreaks: 99 Canadian Sonnets(anthology, as editor) Emeryville: Biblioasis, 2008.
• Anything But Hank!(children's book, co-written with Rachel Lebowitz, illustrated by Eric Orchard) Emeryville: Biblioasis, 2008.LCCN2010-497027
• Track & Trace(trade paperback), Emeryville: Biblioasis, 2009.
• The Essential Kenneth Leslie(as editor) Erin: The Porcupine's Quill, 2010.

External links

• Insomniac Press
• Mercutio Press
• Zachariah Wells' website
• Canadian Notes & Queries
• Zachariah WellsatLibrary of Congress,with 6 library catalogue records (2004 to present)