Shaena Lambert

SHAENA LAMBERT is the author of four works of fiction: Petra, Oh, My Darling, Radiance and The Falling Woman. Her essay on her writing apprenticeship, “Monkey Business,” was recently featured in Off the Record (Bibliosasis): six Canadian women writers exploring how they became fiction writers. Petra won the 2021 Ethel Wilson Award from the BC and Yukon Book Prize and was a CBC best book of the year. She’s been a finalist for the Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, the Ethel Wilson Award, the Evergreen Award, the Danuta Gleed Award and the Frank O'Connor Award for the Short Story. Her stories have been anthologized four times in Best Canadian Stories, as well as in the Journey Prize Anthology, and published in The Walrus, Zoetrope All Story, Ploughshares, Toronto Life and other magazines. She’s at work on a new novel.