The Orion
Lecture Series in Fine Arts
Through the generous support of the Orion Fund in Fine Arts, the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Victoria, is pleased to present:
Carleigh Baker
Writer
“Writing Fiction in our Complicated Contemporary World”
2:30-3:50pm, Monday, October 21
Room A240 UVic’s HSD Building
Free & open to all
Presented by UVic’s Department of Writing
For more information on this lecture please email: writing@uvic.ca
About Carleigh Baker
Carleigh Baker is a Métis-Cree/Icelandic writer and UVic Fine Arts alumna who lives on the unceded territories of the peoples. Her debut story collection, Bad Endings, won the City of Vancouver Book Award, and was shortlisted for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Award, the Indigenous Voices Awards and the Bill Duthie Booksellers Choice Award at the BC and Yukon Book Prizes. Her short stories and essays have been translated into several languages and anthologized in Canada, the United States and Europe.
Baker’s new story collection, Last Woman, was released this year by McClelland & Stewart. Floods and wildfires, toxic culture, billionaires in outer space, or a purse-related disaster while on mushrooms—in today’s hellscape world, there’s no shortage of things to worry about—and Last Woman wants you to know that you’re not alone. Her novel-in-progress, Platformer, is about chosen family, storytelling and honeybees.
As a teacher and researcher, she is particularly interested in how contemporary fiction can be used to address the climate crisis.
About the Orion Fund
Established through the generous gift of an anonymous donor, the Orion Fund in Fine Arts is designed to bring distinguished visitors from other parts of Canada—and the world—to the University of Victoria’s Faculty of Fine Arts, and to make their talents and achievements available to faculty, students, staff and the wider Greater Victoria community who might otherwise not be able to experience their work.
The Orion Fund also exists to encourage institutions outside Canada to invite regular faculty members from our Faculty of Fine Arts to be visiting artists/scholars at their institutions; and to make it possible for Fine Arts faculty members to travel outside Canada to participate in the academic life of foreign institutions and establish connections and relationships with them in order to encourage and foster future exchanges.
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