About Jasmina
Jasmina Odor is a Croatian-born Canadian writer, who emigrated to Canada in 1993.
She is the author of the short story collection You Can’t Stay Here (Thistledown Press, 2017), winner of the Canadian Authors Association Exporting Alberta Award. Her fiction and reviews have been widely published in magazines and anthologies, including The New Quarterly, The Malahat Review, The Fiddlehead, Eighteen Bridges, Prism International, and the Journey Prize Stories. Her short fiction has won the Howard O’Hagan Award and been nominated for the Journey Prize and the CBC Short Story Prize, among others. She lives with her family in Edmonton, on Treaty 6 territory, where she also teaches English literature and writing.
Awards & Nominations
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2018
Exporting Alberta, Canadian Authors Association Winner for You Can’t Stay Here
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2017
Shortlisted for the CBC Short Story Prize 2017 for “Everyone Has Come”
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2016
Finalist for The Malahat Review’s 2016 Open Season Contest, Short Fiction Category for “Bless the Day”
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2014
Shortlisted for The Malahat Review’s novella contest for “The Time of the Apricots”
Silver, Fiction Category, Alberta Magazine Awards, for “His”
Winner of the Howard O’Hagan Award for Short Story, for “His”