Jacqueline Baker

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| birth_place = Saskatchewan

| occupation = novelist

| period = 2000s-present

| nationality = Canadian

| notableworks = A Hard Witching, The Horseman's Graves, The Broken Hours

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Jacqueline Baker is a Canadian writer. Originally from the Sand Hills region of southwestern Saskatchewan,"Reaching out for connections". Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, March 22, 2003. she studied creative writing at the University of Victoria and the University of Alberta.

Her debut short story collection, A Hard Witching, was published in 2003."A crash course in storytelling: If you have to ask, you'll never know". Ottawa Citizen, February 9, 2003. It was shortlisted for that year's Writers' Trust Fiction Prize,"Literary awards announce finalists". The Globe and Mail, February 4, 2004. and won the Danuta Gleed Literary Award"Best first; Gulf scribe; killer babes". Vancouver Sun, June 5, 2004. and the Alberta Book Award for short fiction."Calgary author collects second book prize". Calgary Herald, April 18, 2004.

Her first novel, The Horseman's Graves, was published in 2007.[http://www.quillandquire.com/authors/bewitched/ "Bewitched"]. Quill & Quire, Fall 2007. Her most recent novel is The Broken Hours, a ghost story about the final days of H. P. Lovecraft's life, in 2014."Haunting a master of horror; Novelist built her tale around the final days of H.P. Lovecraft". Edmonton Journal, September 19, 2014.

She teaches creative writing at MacEwan University in Edmonton, Alberta.

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