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Conyer Clayton is a writer and editor from Kentucky currently living in Ottawa, whose award-winning, multi-genre work often explores grief, disability, and gender-based violence through a surrealist lens. They are the author two full-length poetry collections: But the sun, and the ships, and the fish, and the waves. (Winner of The Archibald Lampman Award, and Finalist for the Pat Lowther,  Raymond Souster, and ReLit Awards, A Feed Dog Book, Anvil Press) and We Shed Our Skin Like Dynamite (Winner of the 2021 Ottawa Book Award, Guernica Editions). They are a Senior Editor at Augur Society and a member of VII (an Ottawa-based poetry collective).

 

Conyer's latest chapbook, Kneeling in Our Name, is out with Gap Riot Press, and will be a part of their forthcoming 2026 full-length collection of poetry with Buckrider Books (Wolsak and Wynn).

 

They are currently working on a novel with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.

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Their fiction, poetry, and nonfiction has appeared in Best Canadian Poetry 2023, The Ex-Puritan, This MagazineRoom Magazine, filling station, Canthius, Arc Poetry Magazine, Plenitude, CV2, The Capilano Review, and others.

Conyer Clayton wearing an orange beanie and a green jacket. The background is blurred, but may be trees and a river.
Photo by Curtis Perry
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