| Jacqueline Baker | |
| Birth Place: | Saskatchewan |
| Occupation: | novelist |
| Period: | 2000s-present |
| Nationality: | Canadian |
| Notableworks: | A Hard Witching, The Horseman's Graves, The Broken Hours |
Jacqueline Baker is a Canadian writer. Originally from the Sand Hills region of southwestern Saskatchewan,[1] she studied creative writing at the University of Victoria and the University of Alberta.
Her debut short story collection, A Hard Witching, was published in 2003.[2] It was shortlisted for that year's Writers' Trust Fiction Prize,[3] and won the Danuta Gleed Literary Award[4] and the Alberta Book Award for short fiction.[5]
Her first novel, The Horseman's Graves, was published in 2007.[6] Her most recent novel is The Broken Hours, a ghost story about the final days of H. P. Lovecraft's life, in 2014.[7]
She teaches creative writing at MacEwan University in Edmonton, Alberta.