Roberta Rees (born 1954 in New Westminster, British Columbia)[1] is a Canadian writer from Alberta.
[1] She has also taught English and creative writing at the high school and university levels.
[3] In 1993, she won the Gerald Lampert Award and the Alberta Literary Awards' Stephan G. Stephansson prize for poetry for her poetry collection Eyes Like Pigeons,[4] and her novel Beneath the Faceless Mountain won the Alberta New Fiction Competition for unpublished manuscripts in 1993.
[5] Following the publication of Beneath the Faceless Mountain in 1994, the book was co-winner, with Richard Wagamese's Keeper 'n Me, of the Georges Bugnet Award for Novel at the 1995 Writers' Guild of Alberta's Alberta Literary Awards.
Rees has twice won the James H. Gray Award for short nonfiction, an Alberta Literary Award, in 2018 for "Evie's Massage Parlour" (Writing Menopause, Inanna Publications and Education Inc., 2017) and again in 2019 for "Bones, Honey" (Waiting: An Anthology of Essays, The University of Alberta Press, 2018).