Lisa Alward’s short fiction has appeared in The Journey Prize Stories and twice in Best Canadian Stories. She has won the Fiddlehead Prize as well as the Peter Hinchcliffe Fiction Award, has been a finalist for the Malahat Review’s Open Season Award and prism International’s Jacob Zilber Prize and been long-listed for the CBC Story Prize. Lisa was born and grew up in Halifax and completed an English degree at the University of Toronto and an MA at Queen Mary College in the UK. In the eighties and early nineties, she worked in book publishing in Toronto, before moving with her husband, John, and young family to Vancouver and ultimately to Fredericton, where at fifty she began to write stories. COCKTAIL (Biblioasis), her debut collection, was long-listed for the 2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction. It is the winner of the 2023 Danuta Gleed Literary Award, for the best first collection of short fiction by a Canadian in English, and also received the New Brunswick 2024 Mrs. Dunster’s Award for Fiction.
Lisa is represented by Samantha Haywood.
Welcome Lisa!