Eliza Robertson was born in Vancouver, Canada, and raised on Vancouver Island. She studied at the University of Victoria, then pursued her M.A. in Prose Fiction at the University of East Anglia, where she received the Man Booker Scholarship and the Curtis Brown Prize. In Canada, she has won three national fiction contests and been a finalist for the Journey Prize and the CBC Short Story Prize. She most recently won the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, and is currently at work on a novel.