Eden Robinson

Eden Robinson was born in Kitamaat, British Columbia and is part of the Haisla and Heiltsuk First Nations. She received a BA from the University of Victoria and an MFA from the University of British Columbia. In 1995, Robinson published her first book, Traplines, a collection of four short stories. The collection won Britain’s Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize. Her second book and first novel, Monkey Beach, was published in 2000 and received the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. In 2003, Robinson moved back to Kitamaat Village to care for her father, who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease in 1998. Her third book, Blood Sports, was published in 2006 and returned to the characters of one of the short stories in Traplines. Son of a Trickster, the first book of a planned trilogy, was published in 2017. The second book, Trickster Drift, was published in 2018, and Robinson again won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize for her sequel. In 2019, Robinson was diagnosed with polymyalgia rheumatica, an inflammatory disorder that makes it difficult to write, though she continues to do so. Robinson still lives in Kitamaat and plans to publish the third book in the Trickster trilogy in 2021.