Background
Born in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, he grew up in the rural community of Hazel Grove.
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Zachariah Wells
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Education
Wells attended high school in Ottawa, Ontario and university in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Career
As an undergraduate, he spent summers working in Iqaluit, Nunavut as an airline cargo handler. At this point he started contributing book reviews and essays on Canadian poetry to periodicals including Books in Canada, Quill & Quire and Maisonneuve. In the spring of 2004, his first chapbook of poems, Fool"s Errand, appeared.
In the fall of that year, Toronto"s Insomniac Press published his full-length collection of Arctic poems, Unsettled, under Paul Vermeersch"s 4 Department of Administration and Management Books imprint.
In 2004, Wells started working for Via Rail Canada as a service attendant. In 2006 he became the Reviews Editor for Canadian Notes & Queries.
In 2007, after moving to Vancouver, he published Sealift, a Civil Defense recording of 24 poems from Unsettled. "Achromatope," a letterpress broadside.
And After the Blizzard, a limited edition chapbook.
In the spring of 2008, Jailbreaks, his anthology of Canadian sonnets, was published., the children"s book he co-wrote with Lebowitz, with illustrations by Eric Orchard, was published in the fall. In 2009, after moving back to Halifax, Wells published Track & Trace, his second trade collection of poems, with illustrations by renowned graphic artist Seth.
In 2010, he published The Essential Kenneth Leslie, the first collection of Leslie"s poems to be published since 1972.
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Canada