Eva Crocker is a freelance editor and author who grew up in Ktaqmkuk (Newfoundland).

 Her debut novel All I Ask was long-listed for the 2020 Giller Prize and won the 2020 BMO Winterset Award. It was also translated into French by Laurent Assuant and published under the title Tout ce que je demande by L’Interligne in 2022. Her short story collection Barreling Forward was shortlisted for Dayne Ogilvie Prize for Emerging LGBTQS2 Writers and the NLCU Fresh Fish Award for Emerging Writers. It won the Alistair MacLeod Award for Short Fiction and the CAA Emerging Author’s Award, and was a National Post Best Book. Her new novel Back in the Land of the Living was published by House of Anansi Press in August 2023. 

She is completing a PhD in the Interdisciplinary Humanities department at Concordia University, where she is studying visual art as resistance to resource extraction. 

She is the creator and facilitator of “Fundamentals of Short Fiction,” a creative writing workshop open to people of all experience levels that prioritizes experimentation, receiving feedback on works in progress, and learning to enjoy the process of sharing new work with others.