Vancouver writer Carleigh Baker will read as part of NIC's Write Here Readers Series at the Courtenay Library from 6 - 8 pm.
Date: May 2, 2019Time: 6 pm - 8 pm Location: Vancouver Island Regional Library, Courtenay BranchCost: freeCarleigh Baker is an n锚hiyaw 芒pihtawikosis芒n/Icelandic writer who lives as a guest on the unceded territories of the x史m蓹胃k史蓹y虛蓹m, Skwxwu7mesh, and s蓹l虛ilw蓹ta peoples.
Her debut short story collection, Bad Endings (Anvil, 2017) explores challenging family dynamics, mental health and relationships.
The collection won the City of Vancouver Book Award, and was also a finalist for the Rogers Writers鈥� Trust Award, the Emerging Indigenous Voices Award for fiction, and the BC Book Prize Bill Duthie Booksellers鈥� Choice Award.
Her work has appeared in Best Canadian Essays, The Short Story Advent Calendar, and The Journey Prize Anthology. She also writes reviews for the Globe and Mail and the Literary Review of Canada.
鈥淪tumbling through the fogs of loneliness, Carleigh Baker鈥檚 finely drawn characters
find respite in the particular intimacy afforded by ephemeral relationships. A renewal
of connection with the more-than-human world offers the characters sustenance amidst
the demands of an ever-accelerating city.鈥�
鈥� CITY OF VANCOUVER BOOK AWARD (JURY CITATION)
鈥淗er characters possess an abundance of hard-luck stories, true, but she writes them
as sometimes wrong and sometimes foolish and hence eminently human in their fallibility.鈥�
鈥� The Georgia Straight
鈥�Bad Endings is a deft and humorous portrayal of twenty-first-century humans鈥� lack of connection
with nature, our authentic selves, and each other.鈥�
鈥� The Malahat Review
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