Carleigh Baker is a Canadian writer"Carleigh Baker creates Bad Endings out of flawed human nature". The Georgia Straight, March 29, 2017. of Cree-Métis and Icelandic background.
Life and works Her debut short story collection Bad Endings was a shortlisted finalist for the 2017 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize,"David Chariandy, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson among finalists for $50K Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize". CBC Books, September 27, 2017. and won the City of Vancouver Book Award.
Her work has also appeared in subTerrain, Prism International, Joyland and This Magazine.
In early 2019, Baker served as a Berton House writer-in-residence. As of March 2020, Baker is a writer-in-residence for Simon Fraser University's English Department. She is working on a novel called The Matriarchs, "that examines problematic relationships with mothers."
Her 2024 short story collection Last Woman was shortlisted for the Jim Deva Prize for Writing that Provokes.Cassandra Drudi, "Finalists announced for 2025 B.C. and Yukon Book Prizes". Quill & Quire, April 10, 2025.
External links
Baker's website
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