Author: Zachariah Wells
Born: 1976
Dates: November 2009
Bio: Zachariah Wells was born in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, and raised in the rural community of Hazel Grove. He attended high school in Ottawa, and then went to university in Halifax. As an undergraduate, he supported himself by working as an airline cargo handler in Iqaluit, Nunavut during his summers. In 2001, after graduating, he moved to Iqaluit then to Resolute, on Cornwallis Island. In 2003, he moved to Halifax, and began publishing his poetry. His first chapbook of poems, Fool's Errand, was published in 2004. In 2008, he co-authored a children's book, Anything But Hank!, with his wife Rachel Lebowitz.