Cara Marks

Cara Marks is a writer, editor, and educator from Canada. She earned her MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia, and she is currently researching at Queen’s as a recipient of the Vice-Chancellor’s International Attainment Scholarship. Her PhD is on food, empathy, and literature. Her fiction has been short- and long-listed for the 2020 Grindstone International Novel Prize, the 2020 Journey Prize, the 2019 Carter V. Cooper Short Fiction Competition, the 2017 Australian Book Review’s Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize, and the 2016 Mogford Food and Drink Writing Prize. Her work has also appeared in the Commonwealth Writers’ literary journal adda, and elsewhere. She teaches creative writing workshops, lessons, and courses for adults and young people through the National Centre for Writing, Queen's, and elsewhere.