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name: Michelle   Barker
about: I was born and raised in Vancouver. I attended Arts One at UBC, studied for a year at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and graduated with a BA from UBC in English literature. After a short foray into comp lit, I left the Master's program and worked as a research/editing assistant to Sherrill MacLaren. Sailed across the Pacific from Vancouver to Hawaii, had four children, lived for a summer in Montreal, a year in France, and then the Eastern Townships of Quebec for 10 years. After spending 7 years in the Okanagan, I've returned to Vancouver. I received my MFA in creative writing at UBC's optional-residency program in 2015 and work as a senior editor with https://darlingaxe.com Winner of gold National Magazine award in personal journalism I was born and raised in Vancouver. I attended Arts One at UBC, studied for a year at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and graduated with a BA from UBC in English literature. After a short foray into comp lit, I left the Master's program and worked as a research/editing assistant to Sherrill MacLaren. Sailed across the Pacific from Vancouver to Hawaii, had four children, lived for a summer in Montreal, a year in France, and then the Eastern Townships of Quebec for 10 years. After spending 7 years in the Okanagan, I've returned to Vancouver. I received my MFA in creative writing at UBC's optional-residency program in 2015 and work as a senior editor with https://darlingaxe.com Winner of gold National Magazine award in personal journalism (2002). Finalist for TD Canadian Children's Literature Award (2016), OLA Forest of Reading Golden Oak Award (2017), Chocolate Lily Book Award (2016). Winner of 2017 Surrey International Writers' Conference Storyteller Award.Besides a chapbook of poetry called  Old Growth, Clear-Cut: Poems of Haida Gwaii, a YA fantasy novel,  The Beggar King (2013), and a picture book called  A Year of Borrowed Men (2016), I've also published poetry, short fiction, and a variety of non-fiction. My poetry has appeared in the Best Canadian Poetry anthology (2011).My novel,  The House of One Thousand Eyes, came out in Fall, 2018 with Annick Press and was named a Best Book of 2018 (YA) by Kirkus Reviews. It won the Next Generation Indie Book Awards (YA) and was a finalist for the Arthur Ellis Award in Canadian Crime Writing and the YALSA Best YA Fiction Award.My newest novel, My Long List of Impossible Things, comes out in Spring, 2020, with Annick Press. ...more