Kayla Czaga

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]

Kayla Czaga
Born1989
Occupationpoet
NationalityCanadian
Period2010s-present
Notable worksFor Your Safety Please Hold On

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
  1. 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.
  2. "League of Canadian Poets announces annual award winners". Quill & Quire, June 3, 2015.
  3. "Governor-General’s Literary Awards announces finalists". The Globe and Mail, October 7, 2015.
  4. "Budde in running for BC Book Prize". Prince George Citizen, March 13, 2015.
  5. "Miriam Toews, Sean Michaels among 2015 Canadian Authors Association Literary Awards finalists". Quill & Quire, June 10, 2015.
  6. "MFA graduate finds inspiration in the oddest of places: the bus". The Ubyssey, October 19, 2014.
  7. "20 works of Canadian poetry to check out in spring 2019". CBC Books, January 25, 2019.


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