FAWN PARKER

Bio

Fawn Parker is the author of five books including the novels What We Both Know, nominated for the Giller Prize, and Hi, It's Me, a finalist for the Writer's Trust Atwood Gibson Prize and the Governor General's Award. Her novels have appeared on the Globe & Mail Top 100 Books list, Indigo's Most Anticipated Books list, and the CBC's Fiction Books to Read list. Casey Plett, author of Little Fish and Dream of a Woman called her, "...one of the smartest, most talented writers working right now."

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Fawn's 2023 poetry debut Soft Inheritance was awarded the Atlantic Book Award for Poetry and the Fiddlehead Poetry Book Prize. She served as the 2024-2026 Poet Laureate of Fredericton.

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In 2021, Fawn completed her Masters of Arts at the University of Toronto, writing a creative thesis under writer Robert McGill. She is currently completing a PhD at the University of New Brunswick and is an incoming SSHRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Mad Studies Hub at York University.

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In 2027, Fawn's sophomore poetry collection, On Vacation, will be released with Palimpsest Press and her novel Shut-in Magic will be published by McClelland & Stewart.