Alix Hawley

Alix Hawley studied English Literature and Creative Writing at Oxford University, the University of East Anglia, and the University of British Columbia. In 2008, she published a story collection, The Old Familiar (Thistledown Press), which was longlisted for the ReLit award. Several pieces have won accolades from the CBC:  Witching(opens in new tab) won the 2017 Literary Awards Short Story Prize, while Tentcity(opens in new tab) and  Jumbo(opens in new tab) were runners-up  in 2012 and 2014, and Pig (For Oma)(opens in new tab) won the 2014 Bloodlines contest. Her first novel, All True Not a Lie in It, was published by Knopf as its New Face of Fiction pick for 2015, was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and won the  Amazon.ca / Walrus First Novel Award and BC Book Prize for Fiction.  My Name is a Knife, her next novel, will be published in summer 2018.

Alix lives in British Columbia.

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