Eliza Robertson was born in Vancouver and grew up on Vancouver Island. She studied creative writing and political science at the University of Victoria, then pursued her M.A. in prose fiction at the University of East Anglia, where she received a Man Booker Scholarship and the Curtis Brown Prize for best writer. In Canada, she has won three national fiction contests. Most recently, she was a finalist for the 2013 CBC Short Story Prize, won the 2013 Commonwealth Regional Prize for her piece “We Walked on Water,” and was shortlisted for the 2013 Journey Prize. She lives in Victoria.
