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Troy Jollimore is a poet, philosopher, and critic.

Career & Education
Troy Jollimore was born in Liverpool, Nova Scotia and attended the University of King's College in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He earned his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Princeton University in 1999, under the direction of Harry Frankfurt and Gilbert Harman. He has lived in the U.S. since 1993 and is currently Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Chico. In 2007 he was named an External Faculty Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center at Stanford University.

Jollimore's philosophical writings frequently concern ethical issues connected to personal relationships. In 2011 he published Love's Vision with Princeton University Press. His dissertation, Friendship and Agent-Relative Morality, was published in 2001. His philosophical writings have also appeared in journals including American Philosophical Quarterly, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, and Midwest Studies in Philosophy.

His first collection of poetry, Tom Thomson in Purgatory, won the National Book Critics Circle award for poetry in 2006. It was also nominated for the 2007 Poets' Prize, and individual poems in the collection received nominations for the Pushcart Prize. His second book, At Lake Scugog, appeared in the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets in 2011.

His poems have appeared in numerous publications including "The New Yorker, The Believer, 'McSweeney's, Poetry, and the Washington Post.