Jake Kennedy

JAKE KENNEDY is the author of two poetry collections: The Lateral and Apollinaire's Speech to the War Medic. His work has appeared in literary journals across Canada, the US, and the UK, including The Capilan Review, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, and The Awl. Kennedy is the recipient of the bpNichol Chapbook Award for Hazard (BookThug, 2007), the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry for The Lateral (2010), and the Robin Blaser Award for Poetry for the long poem "Futuromani" (2011). He also received a BC Arts Council Writing Grant in 2013. Kennedy lives in Kelowna, BC, where he teaches English literature and creative writing at Okanagan College.