Kayla Czaga

Canadian poet

Kayla Czaga

Born	1989
Occupation	poet
Nationality	Canadian
Period	2010s-present
Notable works	For Your Safety Please Hold On

Kayla Czaga (born 1989)^[1] is a Canadian poet, who won the Gerald Lampert Award in 2015 for her debut collection For Your Safety Please Hold On.^[2] The book was also a shortlisted nominee for the Governor General's Award for English language poetry,^[3] the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize^[4] and the Canadian Authors Association's Emerging Writer Award.^[5]

Czaga graduated from the University of Victoria in 2011 with a degree in English and creative writing before pursuing an MFA at the University of British Columbia.^[6] Her poetry has also been published in The Puritan, The Walrus, Room, Event, The Malahat Review and The Antigonish Review.^[6]

Her newest poetry book, Dunk Tank, was published in 2019.^[7]

References

^ Richard Sanger (July 3, 2018). "What Makes Poetry Worth Reading?: A new wave of Canadian poets are giving us poems as complex and varied as the country itself". The Walrus. Retrieved January 18, 2020.
^ "League of Canadian Poets announces annual award winners". Quill & Quire, June 3, 2015.
^ "Governor-General's Literary Awards announces finalists". The Globe and Mail, October 7, 2015.
^ "Budde in running for BC Book Prize". Prince George Citizen, March 13, 2015.
^ "Miriam Toews, Sean Michaels among 2015 Canadian Authors Association Literary Awards finalists". Quill & Quire, June 10, 2015.
^ ^a ^b "MFA graduate finds inspiration in the oddest of places: the bus". The Ubyssey, October 19, 2014.
^ "20 works of Canadian poetry to check out in spring 2019". CBC Books, January 25, 2019.