Kayla Czaga
Canadian poet
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| Born | 1989 |
| Occupation | poet |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Period | 2010s-present |
| Notable works | 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]
Her newest poetry book, Dunk Tank, was published in 2019.[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.
- ^ a b "MFA graduate finds inspiration in the oddest of places: the bus". The Ubyssey, October 19, 2014.
- ^ "20 works of Canadian poetry to check out in spring 2019". CBC Books, January 25, 2019.
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Recipients of the Gerald Lampert Award
- Elizabeth Allan (1981)
- Edna Alford and Abraham Boyarsky (1982)
- Diana Hartog (1983)
- Jean McKay and Sandra Birdsell (1984)
- Paulette Jiles (1985)
- Joan Fern Shaw (1986)
- Rosemary Sullivan (1987)
- Di Brandt (1988)
- Sarah Klassen (1989)
- Steven Heighton (1990)
- Diana Brebner (1991)
- Joanne Arnott (1992)
- Elisabeth Harvor and Roberta Rees (1993)
- Barbara Klar and Ilya Tourtidis (1994)
- Keith Maillard (1995)
- Maureen Hynes (1996)
- Marilyn Dumont (1997)
- Mark Sinnett (1998)
- Stephanie Bolster (1999)
- Shawna Lemay (2000)
- Anne Simpson (2001)
- Aislinn Hunter (2002)
- Kathy Mac (2003)
- Adam Getty (2004)
- Ray Hsu (2005)
- Suzanne Buffam (2006)
- Steven Price (2007)
- Alex Boyd (2008)
- Katia Grubisic (2009)
- James Langer (2010)
- Anna Swanson (2011)
- Sarah Mi-Yei Tsiang (2012)
- Gillian Savigny (2013)
- Murray Reiss (2014)
- Kayla Czaga (2015)
- Ben Ladouceur (2016)
- Ingrid Ruthig (2017)
- Emily Nilsen (2018)
- Tess Liem (2019)
- Heather Birrell (2020)
- Bertrand Bickersteth (2021)
- Alisha Kaplan (2022)
- Matthew James Weigel (2023)
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