Carleigh Baker (Canada) is an nêhiyaw âpihtawikosisân writer who lives as a guest on the unceded territories of the xʷmə
θkʷəy̓əm, Skwxwu7mesh, and səl̓ilwəta peoples. Her work has appeared in
Best Canadian Essays,
The Short Story Advent Calendar, and
The Journey Prize Stories. She also writes reviews for the
Globe and Mail and the Literary Review of Canada. Her debut story collection,
Bad Endings (Anvil, 2017) won the City of Vancouver Book Award, and was also a finalist for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, the Emerging Indigenous Voices Award for fiction, and the BC Book Prize Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award. She is the 2019/2020 writer in residence at Simon Fraser University, and a 2020 Shadbolt Fellow in the humanities.