Carleigh Baker
Carleigh Baker is a Canadian writer of Cree-Métis and Icelandic background. Her debut short story collection Bad Endings was a shortlisted finalist for the 2017 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, and won the City of Vancouver Book Award.
Her work has also appeared in subTerrain, Prism International, 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."
