Lisa Alward (born 1962) is a Canadian short story writer based in Fredericton, New Brunswick.

Originally from Halifax, Nova Scotia,[1] Alward was educated at the University of Toronto and Queen Mary University of London, and worked in publishing for many years, returning to creative writing after turning 50 in 2012.[2]

Alward won The Fiddlehead's Short Fiction Prize in 2015 for her short story "Cocktail",[1] and The New Quarterly's Peter Hinchcliffe Award for Short Fiction in 2016 for her story "Old Growth".[2] Both are included in Cocktail, published by Biblioasis in 2023, which won the Danuta Gleed Literary Award for the best first collection of short fiction published by a Canadian in English,[3] as well as the New Brunswick 2024 Mrs. Dunster's Award for Fiction, and was longlisted for the 2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction.[4][5][6]

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