Fawn Parker is a Giller-nominated author of five books including the forthcoming Hi, it’s me (McClelland & Stewart 2024). Her story “Feed Machine” was nominated for the 2020 McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize and her story “Wunderhorse II” was anthologized in André Forget’s After Realism (Véhicule, 2022). Fawn is a PhD student at the University of New Brunswick and her work is represented by Ron Eckel at CookeMcDermid Agency.
Soft Inheritance
Winner of the J.M. Abraham Atlantic Poetry Award, 2024
Winner of the Fiddlehead Poetry Book Prize, New Brunswick Book Awards, 2024
Shortlisted for the Atlantic Book Awards, J. M. Abraham Atlantic Poetry Award 2024
Shortlisted for The Fiddlehead Poetry Book Prize, New Brunswick Book Awards 2023/24
Of Soft Inheritance, the J. M. Abraham jury said, “In poems that navigate a mother’s death from breast cancer, Fawn Parker’s Soft Inheritance boldly refuses sentimentality, mother-daughter cliches, and easy divisions between health and illness…. Parker shows us that grief is both brutal and utterly ordinary, and that the poet’s unflinching observation can be a powerful act of devotion.”
