Kayla Czaga
Kayla Czaga | |
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| Born | 1989 (age 36–37) |
| Occupation | poet |
| Writing career | |
| Period | 2010s-present |
| Notable work | For Your Safety Please Hold On |
Kayla Czaga (born 1989)[1] is a Canadian poet who won the Gerald Lampert Award in 2015 for her debut collection For Your Safety Please Hold On.[2] The book was also a shortlisted nominee for the Governor General's Award for English language poetry,[3] the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize[4] and the Canadian Authors Association's Emerging Writer Award.[5]
Czaga graduated from the University of Victoria in 2011 with a degree in English and creative writing before pursuing an MFA at the University of British Columbia.[6] Her poetry has also been published in The Puritan, The Walrus, Room, Event, The Malahat Review and The Antigonish Review.[6]
Both her second collection of poems, Dunk Tank, and her third, Midway, were finalists for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. [7]
References
- ↑ Richard Sanger (July 3, 2018). "What Makes Poetry Worth Reading?: A new wave of Canadian poets are giving us poems as complex and varied as the country itself". The Walrus. Retrieved January 18, 2020.
- ↑ "League of Canadian Poets announces annual award winners". Quill & Quire, June 3, 2015.
- ↑ "Governor-General's Literary Awards announces finalists". The Globe and Mail, October 7, 2015.
- ↑ "Budde in running for BC Book Prize". Prince George Citizen, March 13, 2015.
- ↑ "Miriam Toews, Sean Michaels among 2015 Canadian Authors Association Literary Awards finalists". Quill & Quire, June 10, 2015.
- 1 2 "MFA graduate finds inspiration in the oddest of places: the bus". The Ubyssey, October 19, 2014.
- ↑ "Winners & Finalists". BC and Yukon Book Prizes. Retrieved 2026-01-07.