Eva Crocker | |
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Born | St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador |
Genre | fiction |
Eva Crocker is a Canadian writer based in St. John's, whose debut short story collection Barrelling Forward was published in 2017. [1]
The daughter of writer Lisa Moore and Memorial University of Newfoundland academic Stephen Crocker, [2] she was a child actor in her youth, appearing in Mary Lewis's 1998 short film When Ponds Freeze Over.
Following the publication of Barrelling Forward she was named as a finalist for the 2017 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ writers, [3] and the book was a nominee for the 2018 ReLit Award for short fiction. [4]
Her first novel, All I Ask, was published in 2020. [5] The novel was longlisted for the Giller Prize in 2020; Crocker was the first child of a prior Giller nominee to receive a nomination. [6] It won the Winterset Award for 2020. [7] It was also a finalist for the ReLit Award for fiction in 2021. [8]
In 2023 she published the novel Back in the Land of the Living. [9]
Eva Crocker | |
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Born | St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador |
Genre | fiction |
Eva Crocker is a Canadian writer based in St. John's, whose debut short story collection Barrelling Forward was published in 2017. [1]
The daughter of writer Lisa Moore and Memorial University of Newfoundland academic Stephen Crocker, [2] she was a child actor in her youth, appearing in Mary Lewis's 1998 short film When Ponds Freeze Over.
Following the publication of Barrelling Forward she was named as a finalist for the 2017 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ writers, [3] and the book was a nominee for the 2018 ReLit Award for short fiction. [4]
Her first novel, All I Ask, was published in 2020. [5] The novel was longlisted for the Giller Prize in 2020; Crocker was the first child of a prior Giller nominee to receive a nomination. [6] It won the Winterset Award for 2020. [7] It was also a finalist for the ReLit Award for fiction in 2021. [8]
In 2023 she published the novel Back in the Land of the Living. [9]