Conor Kerr

Conor is a national award winning (and losing) Metis/Ukrainian writer and bird hunter living in amiskwaciwâskahikan (Edmonton). Born in Saskatoon, raised in Buffalo Pound Lake and Drayton Valley. He is a member of the Metis Nation of Alberta. His Ukrainian family are Settlers on Treaty 4 Territory.

Conor is the author of the novels Avenue of Champions (2021), Prairie Edge (2024) and the poetry collections An Explosion of Feathers (2021) and Old Gods (2023).

Conor’s debut novel, Avenue of Champions, won the 2022 RELIT Award, was shortlisted for the 2022 Amazon/Walrus Debut Novel Award and longlisted for the 2022 Giller Prize.

Old Gods was shortlisted for the 2023 Governor General’s Award for Poetry and named one of CBC’s Best Books of 2023.

Conor is passionate about crafting narratives that focus on the relationship to the landscapes around us.

Comfortable with all genres Conor’s writing has been featured in The Fiddlehead, Prairie Fire, The Malahat Review, Grain, THIS Magazine, The Yellowhead Institute, and other literary magazines. His work has been anthologized in Best Canadian Stories 2020, and Best Canadian Poetry 2020. In 2019 Conor received The Fiddlehead’s Ralph Gustafson Poetry Prize and in 2021 he received The Malahat Review’s Long Poem Prize.