Equipoise, Katie Zdybel‘s debut collection of short fiction, was shortlisted for the 2018 HarperCollins/UBC Prize for Best New Fiction and received a 2019 Canada Council for the Arts Award. Stories within the collection were awarded the 2018 Peter Hinchcliffe Short Fiction Award, the 2019 Exile’s Carter V. Cooper Short Fiction Award for Emerging Writers (a second story by Katie was also shortlisted for the prize), and were publisher-nominated for a 2019 Writers’ Trust Journey Prize and a 2021 National Magazine Award. Stories from the collection have appeared in The New Quarterly, Exile Quarterly, The Malahat Review, The Antigonish Review, and elsewhere. Katie is represented by the CookeMcDermid agency; she’s a recent graduate of the UBC MFA in Creative Writing program and is currently at work on her first novel with generous support from a second Canada Council for the Arts Award.
