Simon Peter Eggertsen
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Simon Peter Eggertsen came very, very late to poetry after a career in international public health. Even so, his work has been published widely—Nimrod, Spoon River Poetry Review, Vallum (Canada), Ekphrasis, Atlanta Review, The MacGuffin, The New Quarterly (Canada), Wasafiri (UK) and beyond. And, his poems have been named finalists, or shortlisted, for numerous prizes: the Neruda, the Frost, the Bridport (UK), the Plough (UK), the Malahat prizes (Canada), the O'Donoghue (Ireland), the Blatchford (Canada), and, recently, the Thomas Merton Prize for Poetry of the Sacred and the Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize (UK). Eggertsen was born in Kansas, raised in Utah, educated in Virginia and England, now splits his time between Cambridge, MA and Montreal (Tiohtià:ke). He has degrees in literature, language and law and two chapbooks to his credit, Memories as Contraband (Finishing Line, 2014) and Hawking Comes Close to Finding God (Turret House, 2024).
Winning Entry: A Request to Live On as Color and Spice #4
Contest Won: Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest 2025, Honorable Mention, Margaret Reid
