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Caitlin Galway
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Caitlin Galway (born October 27, 1987) is a young novelist and short story writer. She currently resides in Toronto, ON. Caitlin wrote her first complete novel, Blackbird (2013) between the ages of nineteen and twenty-one. Galway has been writing since early childhood, where she grew up surrounded by siblings in Ottawa, Ontario. On scholarship, she left home at seventeen to attend Queen’s University. There, she studied creative writing for four years under poet Carolyn Smart, while working toward a degree in English literature. Writing Novels Blackbird, a quasi-autobiographical portrait of her struggle with mental illness, set in the 1970s-80s with an emphasis on the American Punk Rock scene and the history of Salem, Massachusetts. Blackbird was signed by Aqueous books in 2011 and published in 2013., Short Fiction Galway was the recipient of the 2012 Canada Council for the Arts Grant, the 2012 Toronto Arts Council Grant, and the 2012 Ontario Arts Council Writers’ Reserve Grant. That year she was also a finalist for the Gloria Vanderbilt Fiction Prize. Prior to this, she won Riddle Fence’s Short Fiction Contest and was a shortlisted finalist for Matrix Magazine’s LitPop Award, as well as a finalist for Glimmer Train’s 2010 Fiction Open Contest. See Also
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