Kayla Czaga (born 1989) is a Canadian poet who won the Gerald Lampert Award in 2015 for her debut collection For Your Safety Please Hold On."League of Canadian Poets announces annual award winners". Quill & Quire, June 3, 2015. The book was also a shortlisted nominee for the Governor General's Award for English language poetry,"Governor-General's Literary Awards announces finalists". The Globe and Mail, October 7, 2015. the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize"Budde in running for BC Book Prize". Prince George Citizen, March 13, 2015. and the Canadian Authors Association's Emerging Writer Award."Miriam Toews, Sean Michaels among 2015 Canadian Authors Association Literary Awards finalists". Quill & Quire, June 10, 2015.
Czaga graduated from the University of Victoria in 2011 with a degree in English and creative writing before pursuing an MFA at the University of British Columbia."MFA graduate finds inspiration in the oddest of places: the bus". The Ubyssey, October 19, 2014. Her poetry has also been published in The Puritan, The Walrus, Room, Event, The Malahat Review and The Antigonish Review.
Both her second collection of poems, Dunk Tank, and her third, Midway, were finalists for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize.
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