Fawn Parker

Fawn Parker is a Canadian writer.

Career
Parker's novel What We Both Know was longlisted for the 2022 Giller Prize. Parker's essay "The Prescription" appeared in Maisonneuve Magazine and was a finalist for the 2023 National Magazine Awards. In 2020, her short story "FEED MACHINE" was nominated for the Writers' Trust of Canada/McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize. Her poem "Woof" has been shortlisted for a 2024 National Magazine Award.

Parker holds an MA in creative writing from the University of Toronto and is studying at the University of New Brunswick to obtain her Ph.D. Her published works include the short story collection Looking Good and Having a Good Time (2015), the poetry collection Weak Spot (2018), the novels Set-Point (ARP 2019) and Dumb-Show (ARP 2021), her novel What We Both Know (McClelland & Stewart, 2022), and the poetry collection Soft Inheritance (Palimpsest 2023) which won both a 2024 New Brunswick Book Award and a 2024 Atlantic Book Award.

Her novel Hi, it's me is forthcoming with McClelland & Stewart in 2024.

Novels

 * Set-Point. ARP Books, 2019. ISBN 9781927886250.
 * Dumb-Show. ARP Books, 2021. ISBN 9781927886564.
 * What We Both Know. McClelland & Stewart, 2022. ISBN 9780771096730.
 * Hi, It's Me. McClelland & Stewart, 2024. ISBN 9780771005152.

Short Stories

 * Looking Good and Having a Good Time. Metatron Press, 2015. ISBN 9780993946455.

Essays

 * "The Prescription." Maisonneuve Magazine, 2022.

Poetry

 * Soft Inheritance. Palimpsest Press, 2023. ISBN 9781990293528.