Michael Kleiza has read his poetry in a number of venues including
the Eden Mills Writers' Festival, Hillside Festival and the Art Bar
in Toronto. He helps out as a member of the poetry editorial staff
of the University of Guelph literary magazine Carousel, and
is part of a team that judges submissions to the Eden Mills Fringe
Contest. He has been published in a local anthology of poets and artists
and Off the Shelf, a local bookstore publication. He has won
The Bookshelf Poetry Prize and has been twice shortlisted for the
Winston Collins/Descant Poetry Prize. He has hosted spoken word events
and lives in Guelph. His manuscript titled "Love, War, and Some
Things In-Between" has been, in general, rejected by all publishers
who have looked at it.
