Alissa York
Canadian
Alissa York’s internationally acclaimed novels include Effigy (shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize), Fauna and, most recently, The Naturalist (winner of the Canadian Authors Association Award for Fiction). Stories from Alissa’s short fiction collection, Any Given Power, have won the Journey Prize and the Bronwen Wallace Award. Her essays and articles have appeared in the Guardian, the Globe and Mail, Brick magazine and elsewhere. In 2018, she won the Writers’ Trust Engel Findley Award for a Writer in Mid-Career. Having lived all over Canada, she now makes her home in Toronto, where she teaches at the Humber School for Writers.
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