Erin Soros is an Canadian

Canada

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 author

Author

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 of short stories. She was awarded the Governor General's Gold Medal in 2001 and the Commonwealth Prize for the Short Story in 2006. Her fiction has been published widely in such journals as the Indiana Review and the Iowa Review. She is a two-time finalist for the Robert Olen Butler Prize

Robert Olen Butler Prize

The Robert Olen Butler Prize is a prize for short fiction awarded by Del Sol Press in conjunction with Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Robert Olen Butler, who chooses the winning story. The winning stories are also collected into an annual anthology, The Robert Olen Butler Prize Anthology. As of...

 and a winner of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's highest literary award.

One of her essays was named a notable essay in The Best American Essays

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 2005.

She holds an M.A.

Master of Arts (postgraduate)

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 in English from the University of British Columbia

University of British Columbia

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 and an M.F.A. in writing from Columbia University

Columbia University

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