Jacob Scheier

Jacob Scheier (born February 2, 1980) is a Canadian poet born in Toronto.^[1] His debut poetry collection, More to Keep Us Warm, was published by ECW Press in 2007 and was named the winner of the 2008 Governor General's Award for English poetry.^[2]

A former resident of New York City, Jacob moved back to his hometown of Toronto in 2010. Scheier published work in a number of Canadian literary magazines and was co-editor of the York University literary magazine Existere prior to publishing More to Keep Us Warm. He is the son of poet Libby Scheier. He is also a regular contributor to the Toronto alternative weekly NOW. He is currently preparing to teach a course on writing creatively about grief at Ryerson University's School of Continuing Education.

References

^ "Jacob Scheier", The Canadian Encyclopedia
^ "Winners of 2008 Governor General’s Literary Awards Announced", Canada Council for the Arts, November 18, 2008.

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Jacob Scheier home page

v t e Winners of the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry
1980s	F. R. Scott, The Collected Poems of F. R. Scott (1981) Phyllis Webb, The Vision Tree: Selected Poems (1982) David Donnell, Settlements (1983) Paulette Jiles, Celestial Navigation (1984) Fred Wah, Waiting for Saskatchewan (1985) Al Purdy, The Collected Poems of Al Purdy (1986) Gwendolyn MacEwen, Afterworlds (1987) Erín Moure, Furious (1988) Heather Spears, The Word for Sand (1989)
1990s	Margaret Avison, No Time (1990) Don McKay, Night Field (1991) Lorna Crozier, Inventing the Hawk (1992) Don Coles, Forests of the Medieval World (1993) Robert Hilles, Cantos from a Small Room (1994) Anne Szumigalski, Voice (1995) E. D. Blodgett, Apostrophes: Woman at a Piano (1996) Dionne Brand, Land to Light On (1997) Stephanie Bolster, White Stone: The Alice Poems (1998) Jan Zwicky, Songs for Relinquishing the Earth (1999)
2000s	Don McKay, Another Gravity (2000) George Elliott Clarke, Execution Poems (2001) Roy Miki, Surrender (2002) Tim Lilburn, Kill-site (2003) Roo Borson, Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida (2004) Anne Compton, processional (2005) John Pass, Stumbling in the Bloom (2006) Don Domanski, All Our Wonder Unavenged (2007) Jacob Scheier, More to Keep Us Warm (2008) David Zieroth, The Fly in Autumn (2009)
2010s	Richard Greene, Boxing the Compass (2010) Phil Hall, Killdeer (2011) Julie Bruck, Monkey Ranch (2012) Katherena Vermette, North End Love Songs (2013) Arleen Paré, Lake of Two Mountains (2014) Robyn Sarah, My Shoes Are Killing Me (2015) Steven Heighton, The Waking Comes Late (2016) Richard Harrison, On Not Losing My Father's Ashes in the Flood (2017) Cecily Nicholson, Wayside Sang (2018) Gwen Benaway, Holy Wild (2019)
2020s	Anne Carson, Norma Jeane Baker of Troy (2020) Tolu Oloruntoba, The Junta of Happenstance (2021) Annick MacAskill, Shadow Blight (2022) Hannah Green, Xanax Cowboy (2023)

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