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Place of Birth: Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
About Jane Eaton Hamilton
- Jane Eaton Hamilton (born July 19, 1954) is a Canadian short story writer, novelist, essayist and poet, who goes by "Hamilton" and uses they/their pronouns. Hamilton has published the novel Weekend (Arsenal Pulp Press 2016), three books of poetry, Body Rain (Brick Books 1992) and Steam-Cleaning Love (Brick Books 1993), Love Will Burst into a Thousand Shapes (Caitlin Press, 2014), a poetry chapbook (Going Santa Fe, winner of the League of Canadian Poets Poetry Chapbook prize) and two volumes of short fiction July Nights and Other Stories, (Douglas and McIntyre, 1991) and Hunger, (Oberon, 2001).
- They are also the author, under the pseudonymous name of Ellen Prescott, of the memoir Mondays are Yellow, Sundays are Grey retitled No More Hurt which was included on the Guardian's Best Book of the Year list and was a Sunday Times bestseller.
- Their books have been shortlisted for the BC Book Prizes, the ReLit Award, the VanCity Award, the Pat Lowther Award, the Ferro-Grumley Award, and the MIND Book Prize. Their short work has appeared in such publications as En Route, The Sun, The New York Times, Maclean's, Geist, the Missouri Review, Gay Magazine, Salon,The Rumpus, The Globe and Mail and Seventeen.
- They have won many awards for short work, including, twice, first prize in the CBC Literary Awards (2003/2014), 2015's Lit Pop Prize, judged by George Saunders, twice first prize in the Prism International Short Story Award, Canadian Poetry Chapbook of the Year from the League of Canadian Poets, the event Non-Fiction Award, and many others.
- They have had Notable essays in BAE three times, 2016, 2018, and 2019, and a Notable short story in BASS.
- Work is upcoming in BAX 2020, ed Carmen Maria Machado and Joyelle McSweeney. They were a litigant in the Canadian same-sex marriage case between 2000-2003.
- They spent several years as a photographer and for years volunteered for the organization Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep.
- Hamilton is also a visual artist.
- They have two grown daughters and four grandchildren.
- They are also a Master Gardener.
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