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Carleigh Baker

Carleigh Baker

Carleigh Baker

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Carleigh Baker is a Cree-Métis/ Icelandic writer who lives as a guest on the traditional, ancestral, unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples. Her work has appeared in Best Canadian Essays (Tightrope, 2016), The Short Story Advent Calendar (Hingston & Olsen, 2017), and The Journey Prize Anthology (McClelland & Stewart, 2015).

She also writes reviews for the Globe and Mail, the Literary Review of Canada, and The Malahat Review. Her debut story collection, Bad Endings (Anvil, 2017), was a finalist for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Award and the BC and Yukon Book Prize Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award and won the City of Vancouver Book Award. She is the upcoming SFU Writer in Residence for 2019/20.

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