Canadian author Eliza Robertson will stop at Brandon University next week for a public reading, followed by a question-and-answer session.

Robertson is the author of the award-winning short story collection Wallflowers, acclaimed first novel Demi-Gods and newly released children’s book Spur: A Wolf’s Story.

Wallflowers was shortlisted for the East Anglia Book Award, the Danuta Gleed Short Story Prize, and selected as a New York Times Editor’s Choice. Demi-Gods was a Globe & Mail and National Post book of the year and the winner of the 2018 QWF Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize.

Originally from Vancouver Island, she studied creative writing at the University of Victoria and the University of East Anglia, where she received the Man Booker Scholarship and Curtis Brown Prize. In addition to being shortlisted for the CBC Short Story Prize and Journey Prize, Robertson’s stories have won the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, 2017 Elizabeth Jolley Prize, 2019 3Macs carte blanche Prize, and most recently have been shortlisted for the 2019 Berlin Writing Prize. She currently lives in Montreal.