Katia Grubisic

Katia Grubisic (born April 25, 1978, in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian writer, editor and translator.

[1] Her collection What if red ran out (Goose Lane Editions, 2008) won the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award for best first book, and was a finalist for the Quebec Writers' Federation A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry.

She has been guest faculty in creative writing at Bishop's University, and has taught in cegeps and for the Quebec Writers' Federation.

She has acted on the editorial boards of Qwerty, The Fiddlehead and The New Quarterly, and was an editor for Goose Lane Editions' Icehouse Poetry imprint and for Linda Leith Publishing.

[4] She was previously shortlisted for the 2017 Governor General's Awards for Brothers, her translation of David Clerson's novel Frères,[5] and the 2021 Governor General's Awards for A Cemetery for Bees, her translation of Alina Dumitrescu's Le cimetière des abeilles.