Conyer Clayton is a queer writer and editor from Louisville, Kentucky living in Ottawa. Their latest book of surrealist prose poetry, But the sun, and the ships, and the fish, and the waves. won the Archibald Lampman Award. They are a Senior Editor at Augur and a member of VII, an Ottawa-based poetry collective, and you can find their fiction, essays, and poetry published in journals throughout the U.S. and Canada. Their third full-length collection of poetry is forthcoming in 2026 with Buckrider Books, Wolsak and Wynn. They are working on a novel with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, The Ontario Arts Council, and Tin House.
