Joanna Lilley

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Joanna Lilley is the author of Endlings, a collection of poems about extinct animals that won the Fred Kerner Book Award. She’s also the author of the poetry collections If There Were Roads and The Fleece Era, which was nominated for the Fred Cogswell Award, the novel Worry Stones, which was longlisted for the Caledonia Novel Award, and the short story collection, The Birthday Books. Born in the south of England, Joanna lived in Wales and Scotland before moving to Whitehorse, Yukon, where she lives with gratitude on the Traditional Territories of the Kwanlin Dün First Nation and the Ta'an Kwäch'än Council. She’s delighted to be a co-founder of Yukon Words. In 2021, Joanna received Commissioner of Yukon’s Borealis Prize for literary contribution.

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