Bad Endings
Stories
2017Award-winning author of
Bad Endings and Last Woman
CARLEIGHBAKER
Novelist / short story writer / essayist / poet / teacher
nêhiyaw âpihtawikosisân / Icelandic
Enter the work ↓Inventive,
a little weird,
and very, very cool.
SHASHI BHATauthor of The Most Precious Substance on Earth
LASTWOMAN
Thirteen stories / McClelland & Stewart
“Bracingly relevant,
playfully irreverent,
absolutely unforgettable.”
— McClelland & Stewart
Meet the book ↗SHORT FICTION / 2024
“The uncanny burbles up through the cracks of everyday experience.”
MICHAEL CHRISTIEauthor of Greenwood
SELECTED
BOOKS &
ANTHOLOGIES.
“Nothing short of electrifying.”
— 2017 Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize jury
Carleigh Baker’s vision of our current era is so dead-on and incisive that even her aliens and cultists feel like my neighbors.
KIM FUauthor of The Valley of Vengeful Ghosts
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INTERNET
WRITING
Fiction and columns for Hazlitt; independent essays published on Substack.
01EssayThe Existential Hack Machine vs. Aggressive CreativitySubstack / 202602Field noteNotes From the FieldSubstack / 202503EssayWriting in ThemesSubstack / 202504EssayI'm gon' go call my crew, you go call your crewSubstack / 202505FictionMidwivesHazlitt / 202406ColumnAgainst RedemptionHazlitt / 202407EssayNarrative Carleigh, Take The WheelSubstack / 202508EssayThe Mind KillerSubstack / 202509EssaySadly, Cringe is EvergreenSubstack / 2025
View all writing →AUTHOR
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TEACHER.
Carleigh Baker is an author and teacher of Métis and European descent. Born and raised on Stó:lō territory, she currently lives on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh, and səl̓ilwəta peoples.
Her debut story collection, Bad Endings, won the City of Vancouver Book Award. Her short stories and essays have been translated into several languages and anthologized in North America and Europe.
Full bio & contact ↗BAD ENDINGS / 2017
LAST WOMAN / 2024
MENTORSHIP / CONVERSATION / PRACTICE
“The solutions are nearly always with the writer.”
“I love helping writers get to the root of what they want to say and how they want to say it.”
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