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Carleigh Baker is a Canadian writer [1] of Cree-Métis and Icelandic background. [2] Her debut short story collection Bad Endings was a shortlisted finalist for the 2017 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, [3] and won the City of Vancouver Book Award. [4]
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. [5] 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." [6]