Kayla Czaga

Kayla Czaga
Born1989 (age 36–37)
Occupationpoet
NationalityCanadian
Period2010s-present
Notable worksFor 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

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ "League of Canadian Poets announces annual award winners". Quill & Quire, June 3, 2015.
  3. ^ "Governor-General's Literary Awards announces finalists". The Globe and Mail, October 7, 2015.
  4. ^ "Budde in running for BC Book Prize". Prince George Citizen, March 13, 2015.
  5. ^ "Miriam Toews, Sean Michaels among 2015 Canadian Authors Association Literary Awards finalists". Quill & Quire, June 10, 2015.
  6. ^ a b "MFA graduate finds inspiration in the oddest of places: the bus". The Ubyssey, October 19, 2014.
  7. ^ "Winners & Finalists". BC and Yukon Book Prizes. Retrieved 2026-01-07.
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