Krista Bridge

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| occupation = novelist, short story writer

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Krista Bridge is a Canadian writer, whose debut novel The Eliot Girls was a shortlisted nominee for the 2013 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize"Krista Bridge in disbelief her private school novel is up for Writers' Trust". Canadian Press, September 30, 2013. and the 2014 Amazon.ca First Novel Award.[http://arts.nationalpost.com/2014/03/05/finalists-for-amazon-ca-first-novel-award-announced/ "Finalists for Amazon.ca First Novel Award announced"] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20140308061546/http://arts.nationalpost.com/2014/03/05/finalists-for-amazon-ca-first-novel-award-announced/ |date=2014-03-08 }}. National Post, March 5, 2014.

She was also previously nominated for the ReLit Award and the Danuta Gleed Literary Award for her short story collection The Virgin Spy in 2007.[http://womenspost.ca/women-of-the-week-krista-bridge/ "Women of the Week: Krista Bridge"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180902183844/https://www.womenspost.ca/women-of-the-week-krista-bridge/ |date=2018-09-02 }}. Women's Post, July 1, 2013.

From Toronto, Ontario, Bridge was educated at St. Clement's School, and later studied creative writing at the Humber School for Writers. She published her first short story in Toronto Life in 2002.