Ace Baker
Nominated for the 2023 Atwood Gibson Writer’s Trust Fiction Prize (How to Make a Killing Jar, CHP 2023)
Ace Baker is a writer, poet, and writing coach from Vancouver, Canada. His short story, "Victory Girl," won the Storyteller Award, and another, "Menos Coca, Más Cacao" won the Blank Spaces short fiction contest, "The Things We Leave Behind," and was published in an anthology by the same name. His poetry has won the SIWC, PNWA, and Magpie awards, among others. Both his prose and poetry have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and National Magazine Awards.
The Surrey International Writers’ Conference was a weekend of teaching and connecting and signing many books for eager attendees, selling out of all the books CHP provided to the conference bookstore and leaving attendees wanting more.