Elizabeth Hay

She has been a finalist for the Governor General's Award twice, for her short-story collection Small Change in 1997 and her novel Garbo Laughs in 2003. His Whole Life (2015) was shortlisted for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. Hay's memoir about the last years of her parents' lives, All Things Consoled, won the 2018 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction. Her most recent novel, Snow Road Station, was named one of the best books of 2023 by The New Yorker. In 2002, she received the Marian Engel Award, presented by the Writers' Trust of Canada to an established female writer for her body of work — including novels, short fiction, and creative non-fiction.

• Name — Elizabeth Hay • Born — 22 October 1951 • Birthplace — Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada • Occupation — novelist and short story writer • Period — contemporary • Genre — fiction • Notable Works — Late Nights on Air, A Student of Weather, Small Change, Garbo Laughs, Alone in the Classroom, His Whole Life, All Things Consoled • Website — elizabethhay.com • Education — University of Toronto

Hay was born on October 22, 1951, in Owen Sound, Ontario. She is the daughter of a high school principal and a painter. Hayspent a year in England when she was fifteen and later attended Victoria College at the University of Toronto. In September, 1972, she quit university. A few months later, May travelled out west by train. The following year she returned to Toronto and finished her degree in English and Philosophy. In 1974, May moved to Yellowknife, Northwest Territoriesm She worked for ten years as a CBC radio broadcaster in Yellowknife, Winnipeg and Toronto and then moved to Mexico, where she freelanced for the CBC. In 1986, May settled in New York City before to Canada with her family in 1992. She lives in Ottawa with her husband Mark Fried, a literary translator. May has two children.

• A Student of Weather (2000) McClelland & Stewart • Garbo Laughs (2003) McClelland & Stewart • Late Nights on Air (2007) McClelland & Stewart • Alone in the Classroom (2011) McClelland & Stewart • His Whole Life (2015) McClelland & Stewart • Snow Road Station (2023) Knopf Canada

• "The Friend" (in The Penguin Book of Canadian Short Stories, edited by Jane Urquhart, 2007, Penguin Canada) • "Jet in England", Ottawa Magazine summer fiction issue, Jul/Aug 2007 • "The Food of Love", Ottawa Citizen, Holiday Edition, 2008 • "Of Mattresses and Men", Ottawa Magazine summer fiction issue, July/Aug 2008 • "Last Poems", The New Quarterly, Spring 2009 • "City as Redhead", The New Quarterly, Spring 2009

• A non-fiction trilogy about Elizabeth Hay's travels outside of Canada: • Crossing the Snow Line (1989) Black Moss Press • The Only Snow in Havana (1992) Cormorant Books • Captivity Tales: Canadians in New York (1993) New Star Books • All Things Consoled: a daughter's memoir (2018) McClelland & Stewart

• "Ten Beauty Tips You Never Asked For" (in Dropped Threads 2, edited by Carol Shields and Marjorie Anderson, 2003, Vintage Canada) • "The Most Fearless Book I Read" (in The Book I Read, edited by Peder Zane, 2004, Norton) • "My Debt to D.H. Lawrence" (in Writing Life: Celebrated Canadian and International Authors on Writing and Life, edited by Constance Rooke, 2006, McClelland & Stewart) • "Between Books" (in Finding the Words: Writers on Inspiration, Desire, War, Celebrity, Exile, and Breaking the Rules, edited by Jared Bland, 2011, McClelland & Stewart) • "The Mother as Material" (in The Cambridge Companion to Alice Munro, edited by David Staines, 2016, Cambridge UP)

• Short Fiction, an Anthology, edited by Rosemary Sullivan and Mark Levene, Oxford University Press, 2003 • The Scotiabank Giller Prize 15 Years: An Anthology of Prize-Winning Canadian Fiction, Penguin, 2008 • Best Canadian Essays 2010, Tightrope Books, 2010

The authorities additionally record the heading Elizabeth Grace Hay. Her recorded language was English. She was the child of Gordon Conran Hay and Elizabeth Jean Stevenson. She married Mark Fried. 2 children are recorded: Sochi Bess Fried and Ben Angus Fried.

• Small Change (1997) The Porcupine's Quill (republished by McClelland & Stewart in 2000)