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Eliza Robertson was born in Vancouver, Canada, and studied creative writing and political science at the University of Victoria. She pursued her MA in Prose Fiction at the University of East Anglia, where she received the Man Booker Scholarship and the Curtis Brown Prize for best writer. In Canada, she has won three national fiction contests, has been twice longlisted for the Journey Prize, and is a finalist for the CBC Short Story contest. In 2013, Robertson won the Commonwealth Short Story Prize.
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Tides (2022)
Sara Freeman
"A compulsive read -- this story and its characters seeped into me, so that I often thought of them between spells of reading. Freeman's voice has a salt to it that feels both evocative of and independent from the sea-streaked setting. The main character has venom, but she seems more self-stinging than anything, which only adds to the story's unsettling allure. From the crystalline prose to the plot's syncopated rhythm, Tides is an incisive, memorable debut."
Throw Down Your Shadows (2020)
Deborah Hemming
"Throw Down Your Shadows is a compulsive, intoxicating read. I cared for these characters, felt entranced and betrayed by them, as if they were my own friends. As the narration weaves between past and future, orbiting nearer to the black hole at its centre, Hemming proves herself to be a masterful storyteller. I lost sleep over this book, mostly because I couldn't put it down."
