Kayla Czaga

Kayla Czaga

Kayla Czaga (b. 1989) is the author of For Your Safety Please Hold On (Nightwood Editions, 2014), which won The Gerald Lampert Memorial Award and was nominated for the Governor General’s Award and the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, among others. In 2015, she published Enemy of the People, a chapbook of poems about Stalin, with Anstruther Press. Her poems have won The Fiddlehead’s Ralph Gustafson Poetry Prize, The Malahat Review’s Far Horizons Award and Arc Poetry Magazine’s Poem of the Year contest. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from UBC, lives in East Vancouver, and works at “possibly the nerdiest bar in Canada,” according to the National Post.