Carleigh Baker is a Canadian writer[1] of Cree-Métis and Icelandic background.
[2] Her debut short story collection Bad Endings was a shortlisted finalist for the 2017 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize,[3] and won the City of Vancouver Book Award.
[4] Her work has also appeared in subTerrain, Prism International, Joyland and This Magazine.
[5] As of March 2020, Baker is a writer-in-residence for Simon Fraser University's English Department.
She is working on a novel called The Matriarchs, "that examines problematic relationships with mothers.