Shane Neilson is a poet, critic, and memoirist who lives in Oakville, Ontario. He was born in New Brunswick and much of his writing reflects this origin. At present he works as a family physician and is a Vanier Scholar completing his PhD in English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University. Shane is editor of Frog Hollow Press based out of Victoria, BC and “Manifestoist Editor” at Anstruther Press of Toronto, ON. The author of several books, most recently he published On Shaving Off His Face (PQL), a book of poems about the iconography of the face in mental illness. In 2015 he also edited The Essential Travis Lane with PQL and How Thought Feels: the poetry of M. Travis Lane with Frog Hollow Press. In 2016 he will edit a selected prose volume (Palimpsest Press) and a collected long poems (Goose Lane Editions) by Travis Lane. Shane is Associate Editor with Hamilton Arts & Letters magazine.