Jane Eaton Hamilton

Jane Eaton Hamilton (born July 19, 1954) is a Canadian short story writer, visual artist, poet and photographer.

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• Notable awards
• Notable awards Books
• Notable awards Grants
• References

Hamilton has published the novel Weekend (Arsenal Pulp Press 2016), three books of poetry, Body Rain (Brick Books 1992) and Steam-Cleaning Love (Brick Books 1993), Love Will Burst into a Thousand Shapes (Caitlin Press, 2014), a poetry chapbook (Going Santa Fe, winner of the League of Canadian Poets Poetry Chapbook prize) and two volumes of short fiction July Nights and Other Stories, (Douglas and McIntyre, 1991) and Hunger, (Oberon, 2001). She is also the author, under the pseudonymous name of Ellen Prescott, of the memoir Mondays are Yellow, Sundays are Grey" retitled "No More Hurt" which was included on the Guardian's Best Book of the Year list and was a Sunday Times bestseller. Her books have been shortlisted for the BC Book Prizes, the VanCity Award, the Pat Lowther Award, the Ferro-Grumley Award, and the MIND Book Prize, UK.

Her short work has appeared in such publications as En Route, The New York Times, Maclean's, Geist, the Missouri Review, Salon,The Rumpus, and Seventeen. She has won many awards for her short work, including, twice, first prize in the CBC Literary Awards (2003/2014), 2015's Lit Pop Prize, twice first prize in the Prism International Short Story Award, Canadian Poetry Chapbook of the Year from the League of Canadian Poets, the event Non-Fiction Award, and many others.

She was a litigant in the Canadian same-sex marriage case between 2000-2003. She spent several years as a photographer and for years volunteered for the organization Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep. Hamilton is also a visual artist. She has two grown daughters and four grandchildren. Jane Eaton Hamilton is also a Master Gardener.