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	Neil Aitken View Works by this Person
Web Site	Neil Aitken: Poetry & Art Personal Website with examples of Aitken's poetry and art. http://www.lone-crow.com
Also Known As	Neil Tangaroa Aitken
Religion	LDS
Birth Date	April 21, 1974
Birth Place	Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
LDS Missions	Taiwan Taipei 1993-95
Parents	Kenneth George Aitken, Christine Mei-Chiang Chung
Education	BS Computer Science, 1999, Brigham Young Univ. MFA Creative Writing, 2006, University of California, Riverside
Career	Neil Aitken spent four-and-half years as a computer games programmer in Los Angeles prior to leaving the computer industry to pursue his MFA in Creative Writing. He has been active and notable presence in the southern California poetry scene, both as a featured poet and as a casual reader at open mics. His poetry has been published both in print and online in such periodicals as: Beyond the Valley of Contemporay Poets 2004, Prairie Poetry, Poetic Diversity, Inscape, and Anagram. He expects to complete his MFA in June 2006.
Awards	Prairie Poetry Friends' Prize, "Adrift" (poem) - Spring 2005 Prairie Poetry Peer Award, "Adrift" (poem) - Spring 2005 Prairie Poetry Peer Award, "Forgetting to Fill Up in Saskatoon" (poem) - Spring 2004 2nd Place, BYU Inscape Poetry Competition - 1999 Honorable Mention, BYU Eisteddfod - 1999

Works by Neil Aitken Sort by title	Year	Genre
Birth	1999	Poetry
Burials	1999	Poetry