Patricia Robertson

Patricia Robertson's most recent book is The Goldfish Dancer: Stories and Novellas. Her work has been nominated for the B.C. Book Prizes, the Journey Prize, the Pushcart Prize, and the National Magazine Awards (three times). She was also recently named as one of the top forty Canadian short story writers of the twentieth century.

Born in the UK, she grew up in Canada and received her MA in Creative Writing from Boston University. She now lives in Whitehorse, Yukon, where she teaches creative writing at Yukon College. She is the 2010-2011 Writer-in-Residence at the Haig-Brown House in Campbell River.