Troy Jollimore, who won Second Place in Narrative’s Ninth Annual Poetry Contest, is the author of several poetry collections, including Tom Thomson in Purgatory, winner of the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, and Syllabus of Errors, chosen by the New York Times as one of the best poetry books of 2015. In addition, Jollimore has published three books of philosophy. Born in Nova Scotia, he received his BA from University of King’s College and a PhD in philosophy from Princeton.
Photograph by Brett Hall Jones.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- Free Huey P. Newton with Every Purchase and Other Poems, poetry, in Fall 2017
- On Birdsong, poetry, in Poems of the Week: 2014–2015