Gabriella Goliger’s first book, Song of Ascent (Raincoast Books), a collection of linked short stories, won the 2001 Upper Canada Writer’s Craft Award. Her novel Girl Unwrapped (Arsenal Pulp Press) won the City of Ottawa 2011 Literary Award for Fiction. She was co-winner of the 1997 Journey Prize for short fiction and a finalist for this prize in 1995 and she won the Prism International award in 1993. She has also been published in a number of journals and anthologies including Best New American Voices 2000 (Harcourt Inc.), Contemporary Jewish Writing in Canada (University of Nebraska Press) and The New Spice Box: Canadian Jewish Writing (The New Jewish Press).

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