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Neil Aitken

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Neil Aitken is the author of two books of poetry, The Lost Country of Sight (Anhinga 2008), which won the Philip Levine Prize, and Babbage’s Dream (Sundress 2017), as well as a chapbook of poetry, Leviathan (Hyacinth Girl Press 2016). He is the founding editor of Boxcar Poetry Review and his own poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Adroit Journal, American Literary Review, The Collagist, Crab Orchard Review, Ninth Letter, Southern Poetry Review, and many other literary journals.
Neil Tangaroa Aitken
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LDS (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
Kenneth George Aitken, Christine Mei-Chiang Chung
1974-04-21
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Taiwan Taipei 1993-95
BS in Computer Science with Mathematics minor from Brigham Young University (1999), MFA Creative Writing from the University of California Riverside (2006), PhD in Literature & Creative Writing from the University of Southern California
Computer games programmer, poet, editor, translator, instructor
Male
Author, Poet
English

13 Works by Neil Aitken

Title Role Year Genre
Burials Author Poetry
Birth Author Poetry
Time Enfolding Time Author 1998 Poetry
Man Pulled From the Earth (El Salvador) Author 2003 Poetry
Forgetting to Fill Up in Saskatoon Author Poetry
Sun Dance Author 2004 Poetry
Adrift Author 2004 Poetry
Jericho Author 2004 Poetry
Counting Winters in Los Angeles Author 2004 Poetry
Bad Sestina Author 2004 Poetry
After Neruda Author Poetry
Traveling Through the Prairies, I Think of my Father's Voice Author 2009 Poetry
In Hsin Chu Author 2009 Poetry
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