Chris Banks

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Chris Banks (born 1970) is a Canadian poet.

Banks's childhood was spent in the small Ontario towns of Stayner, Sioux Lookout, and Bancroft. He received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Guelph, before moving on to complete a Masters of Arts in Creative Writing from Concordia University and later a Bachelor of Education from the University of Western Ontario.

Banks's works include a chapbook, Form Letters (2002). His first full-length collection, Bonfires, was awarded the Jack Chalmers Award for poetry by the Canadian Authors' Association in 2004. Bonfires was also a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Award for best first book of poetry in Canada. Another chapbook of his work entitled Sparrows and Arrows was published by Biblioasis Press in the spring of 2006. He lives in Waterloo, Ontario, where he writes and teaches high school.