Jacqueline Baker

Jacqueline Baker
Born	Saskatchewan
Occupation	novelist
Nationality	Canadian
Period	2000s-present
Notable works	A Hard Witching, The Horseman's Graves, The Broken Hours

Jacqueline Baker is a Canadian writer. Originally from the Sand Hills region of southwestern Saskatchewan,^[1] she studied creative writing at the University of Victoria and the University of Alberta.^[1]

Her debut short story collection, A Hard Witching, was published in 2003.^[2] It was shortlisted for that year's Writers' Trust Fiction Prize,^[3] and won the Danuta Gleed Literary Award^[4] and the Alberta Book Award for short fiction.^[5]

Her first novel, The Horseman's Graves, was published in 2007.^[6] Her most recent novel is The Broken Hours, a ghost story about the final days of H. P. Lovecraft's life, in 2014.^[7]

She teaches creative writing at MacEwan University in Edmonton, Alberta.^[7]

External links

• Baker at MacEwan University

References

1. "Reaching out for connections". Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, March 22, 2003.
2. "A crash course in storytelling: If you have to ask, you'll never know". Ottawa Citizen, February 9, 2003.
3. "Literary awards announce finalists". The Globe and Mail, February 4, 2004.
4. "Best first; Gulf scribe; killer babes". Vancouver Sun, June 5, 2004.
5. "Calgary author collects second book prize". Calgary Herald, April 18, 2004.
6. "Bewitched". Quill & Quire, Fall 2007.
7. "Haunting a master of horror; Novelist built her tale around the final days of H.P. Lovecraft". Edmonton Journal, September 19, 2014.