Eliza Robertson’s 2014 debut story collection, WALLFLOWERS, was shortlisted for the East Anglia Book Award, the Danuta Gleed Short Story Prize, and selected as a New York Times Editor’s Choice. Her critically acclaimed first novel, DEMI-GODS (2017), was a Globe & Mail and National Post book of the year and the winner of the 2018 QWF Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize. Her most recent book, I GOT A NAME (2023), was an instant national bestseller. She is also the co-author of FEARLESS CHOICES by EVIO founder and CEO Brandi Leifso, forthcoming with HarperCollins in 2025.

Eliza studied creative writing at the University of East Anglia, where she received the Man Booker Scholarship and Curtis Brown Prize. In addition to being shortlisted for the CBC Short Story Prize, Journey Prize, and Berlin Writing Prize, Eliza’s stories have won the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, Elizabeth Jolley Prize, and 3Macs carte blanche Prize.

Originally from Vancouver Island, Eliza now lives in Montreal. She works remotely as the Vice President of Content for the CHANI app and co-hosts the Down to Astro podcast with Thea Anderson and best-selling author, Chani Nicholas.