Marjorie Celona

Marjorie Celona (born January 7, 1981) is an American-Canadian writer. Their debut novel, Y, published in 2012, won the Waterstones 11 literary prize and was a shortlisted nominee for the Center for Fiction's Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize, the Amazon.ca First Novel Award and a longlisted nominee for the Scotiabank Giller Prize.

Life and career Born and raised in Victoria, British Columbia,

Celona's most recent novel, How a Woman Becomes a Lake, was published in March 2020.

Celona currently teaches in the MFA program at the University of Oregon.