Tracey Waddleton

{{Short description|Canadian writer}}

Tracey Waddleton (born September 1, 1979) is a Canadian writer from Newfoundland and Labrador.Juanita Mercer, [https://www.saltwire.com/newfoundland-labrador/news/20-questions-with-tracey-waddleton-355319/ "20 Questions with Tracey Waddleton"]. SaltWire Network, September 23, 2019. Her debut short story collection, Send More Tourists...the Last Ones Were Delicious, was the 2020 winner of the ReLit Award for short fiction.Ryan Porter, [https://quillandquire.com/omni/relit-concludes-month-long-awards-celebration-by-announcing-2020-winners/ "ReLit concludes month-long awards celebration by announcing 2020 winners"]. Quill & Quire, April 30, 2021.

Waddleton was born in St. John's, but grew up in the small town of Trepassey.James M. Fisher, [https://miramichireader.ca/2019/10/tracey-waddleton-interview/ "The Tracey Waddleton Interview"]. The Miramichi Reader, October 15, 2019. An earlier draft of Send More Tourists was shortlisted for the province's Fresh Fish Award for emerging writers in 2013, before being published in 2019 by Breakwater Books.Carly Rosalie Vandergriendt, [https://mtlreviewofbooks.ca/reviews/send-more-tourists-the-last-ones-were-delicious/ "Stories that Travel"]. Montreal Review of Books, Fall 2019.