Shaena Lambert

Shaena Lambert is a novelist, short story writer and teacher. Her latest book of stories, Oh, My Darling was chosen as a Globe and Mail Top Book of the Year, and was published to critical acclaim across the country. Her first book of stories, The Falling Woman, published in Canada, the UK and Germany, was also a Globe and Mail Top 100 Book of the Year and was shortlisted for the Danuta Gleed Award. Her novel, Radiance, about a Hiroshima survivor who comes to New York in 1952, and the complex relationship she has with her hosts, was a finalist for the Writers Trust Fiction Award, the Ethel Wilson Prize, and the Ontario Evergreen Award.

Shaena has taught fiction with The Humber School for Writers, The Writers’ Studio of Simon Fraser University and through the Vancouver Manuscript Intensive. She is currently working on a new novel, and divides her time between Vancouver and Cortes Island.