Background
Hawley was born in Vancouver in 1975, but moved shortly afterwards to Kelowna, British Columbia, where she began writing early.
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Alix Hawley
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University of British Columbia. University of East Anglia. University of Oxford.
Career
She moved to the United Kingdom to complete a M.St. and Doctorate.Phil. under Hermione Lee’s supervision at Oxford University. Her thesis discusses Virginia Woolf and nineteenth-century children's culture. She went on to complete an Master of Arts in Creative (Fiction) at the University of East Anglia, studying with Andrew Motion, Richard Holmes, and Paul Magrs.
She lists her favourite authors as: Alice Munro, Patricia Highsmith, Virginia Woolf, Anita Brookner, Colm Toibin, Peter Carey, and Hilary Mantel among many others
Personal Hawley teaches English and Creative at Okanagan College in Kelowna, where she lives with her family.
Achievements
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Her novel, All True Not a Lie In lieutenant (Knopf 2015), won the amazon.ca First Novel Award in 2015. She studied for her Bachelor (Honors) in English Literature, with a minor in Nineteenth-Century Studies, at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, where she won the Governor General’s medal as the top graduating student in the faculty of Arts. Hawley"s first book, The Old Familiar (Thistledown Press, 2008), is a collection of short stories. The Globe and Mail referred to it this way: “’Genius’ is a word I hesitate to use in a review. Hawley"s work requires lieutenant” and it was longlisted for the ReLit award. One of her stories, “Little Boy,” was shortlisted for the Canadian Broadcasting Company Literary Awards in 2009, and another, “Tentcity,” was runner-up in 2011. In December 2013, Hawley"s short story "Pig (for Oma)" was the winner of the Canada Writes "Bloodlines" short story contest. The novel won the amazon.ca First Novel Award in 2015, and is longlisted for the 2015 Scotiabank Giller Prize.
