Eliza Robertson
Eliza Robertson attended the creative writing programs at the University of Victoria and University of East Anglia, where she received the 2011 Man Booker Scholarship. Her first collection, Wallflowers, was shortlisted for the Canadian Authors Association Emerging Writer Award, the Danuta Gleed Short Story Prize, the East Anglia Book Award and selected as a New York Times Editor’s Choice. In 2015, she was named by Joseph Boyden as one of five emerging writers for the Writers’ Trust Five x Five program.
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Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Best Book of 1994: The Land of Green Plums by Herta Müller
Eliza Robertson
‘You'd have to have lived through that bleakness. You'd have to know with your body, your hands, your eyes, your mouth, the weight of that fear – how it’s not strictly describable.’
Five Things Right Now | The Online Edition
Five Things Right Now: Eliza Robertson
Eliza Robertson
‘For me, astrology’s opened this new language and field of understanding.’
Fiction | The Online Edition
The Maenad
Eliza Robertson
‘She feels the wildness enter her and keeps her eyes shut.’ New fiction from Eliza Robertson.
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Eliza Robertson | Interview
Eliza Robertson
‘I suppose if something moves me to write, I don't question it.’
Fiction | The Online Edition
We Walked on Water
Eliza Robertson
‘Land of the misty giants: cedar, alder, Ponderosa pine. Cascade Mountains pushing out green like grass through a garlic press.’