Elizabeth Bachinsky is a Canadian poet. She's published three collections since 2005: Curio, Home of Sudden Service, and God of Missed Connections. Her second book, Home of Sudden Service, was nominated for a 2006 Governor General's Award for Poetry. Bachinsky's work has appeared in literary journals and anthologies in Canada, the U.S., France, Ireland, the U.K., China and Lebanon.

Personal life

Bachinsky was born on May 10, 1976 in Regina, Saskatchewan and grew up in Prince George, British Columbia. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia. She lives in Vancouver, B.C., where she teaches creative writing at Douglas College and is the editor of Event Magazine, a Vancouver literary journal.

Prizes and honours

• 2004 Nominee, Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award
  Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award
  The Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award is a Canadian literary award, presented annually by the Writers' Trust of Canada to a writer under 35 who has not yet published his or her first book....
  
  
• 2006 Nominee, Governor General's Award for Poetry (for Home of Sudden Service)
• 2006 Nominee, Kobzar Literary Award
• 2009 Nominee, Pat Lowther Award
  Pat Lowther Award
  The Pat Lowther Memorial Award is an annual award presented by the League of Canadian Poets to the year's best book of poetry by a Canadian woman. It is presented in honour of poet Pat Lowther, who was murdered by her husband in 1975. Each winner receives an honorarium of $1000.-Winners:*1981 - M...
  
  
• 2010 Shortlist, George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature

Poetry

• Curio (2005) BookThug
• Home of Sudden Service (2006) Nightwood Editions
• God of Missed Connections (2009) Nightwood Editions

Anthologies

• Pissing Ice: An Anthology of “New” Canadian Poets (2004) BookThug
• In Fine Form: The Canadian Book of Form Poetry (2005) Polestar
• Jailbreaks: 99 Canadian Sonnets (2008) Biblioasis
• Fist of the Spider Woman: Tales of Fear and Queer Desire (2009) Arsenal Pulp Press
• How the Light Gets In (2009) University of New Waterford, Ireland
• Verse Map of Vancouver (2009) Anvil Press

External links

• Elizabeth Bachinsky