Finalist for the 2025 Jim Deva Prize for Writing That Provokes
Winner of the City of Vancouver Book Award
Finalist for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize
Finalist for the Bill Duthie Booksellers Choice Award, BC and Yukon Book Prizes
Finalist for the Emerging Indigenous Voices Award for Fiction

CARLEIGH BAKER is an author and teacher of nêhiyaw âpihtawikosisân (Cree-Métis) and European descent.

Born and raised on Stó:lō territory, she currently lives on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ilwəta (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples.

Her debut story collection, Bad Endings (Anvil Press, 2017), won the City of Vancouver Book Award, and was also a finalist for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the Indigenous Voices Award for fiction.

Her short stories and essays have been translated into several languages and anthologized in Canada, the United States, and Europe.

Baker’s newest collection, Last Woman, has been shortlisted for the Jim Deva Prize for Writing That Provokes at the BC Yukon Book Prizes.