Kayla Czaga

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Kayla Czaga
Born1989
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]

Her newest poetry book, Dunk Tank, was published in 2019. [7]

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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. 1 2 "MFA graduate finds inspiration in the oddest of places: the bus". The Ubyssey , October 19, 2014.
  7. "20 works of Canadian poetry to check out in spring 2019". CBC Books, January 25, 2019.