Patricia Robertson

Born in the UK and raised in northern British Columbia, Patricia Robertson has lived in Spain, London, Yukon, and elsewhere. Her third fiction collection, Hour of the Crab, was named co-winner of the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction at the 2022 Manitoba Book Awards. Her first collection, City of Orphans, was shortlisted for B.C.’s Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. Her fiction and essays have been nominated for the CBC Literary Awards, the Pushcart Prize, the Journey Prize, and three National Magazine Awards, and have appeared in Best Canadian Stories and Best Canadian Essays. In 2018 she was the winner of the International Aesthetica Creative Writing Award in Poetry (UK). She has served as writer-in-residence at libraries and universities across Canada, and currently teaches at the University of Winnipeg.