Marion Quednau has won numerous awards for poetry, including a Malahat Long Poem Prize, a National Magazine Award, and a chapbook contest for Kissing: Selected Chronicles from the League of Canadian Poets. She has been short-listed for CBC’s Poetry Prize in 2012, winning the People’s Choice. Her prose has also received critical acclaim, including the Smithbooks-Books in Canada first novel award. Paradise, Later Years will be published by Caitlin Press in October 2018.