Lue
Palmer
Born in Canada, with roots in Portland, Jamaica, Lue Palmer is a writer of literary speculative fiction, long-form journalism, and poetry. They are a recipient of the 2021 Octavia E. Butler Memorial Scholarship. Their work is focused on Black experiences of nature and climate change, and has been published in the U.S., Canada, and the Caribbean. Lue’s first novel, The Hungry River, is forthcoming.
Award History
Works recognized by WT
- Awards
- Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction
- Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
- Balsillie Prize for Public Policy
- Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing
- Matt Cohen Award: In Celebration of a Writing Life
- Latner Writers’ Trust Poetry Prize
- Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People
- Writers’ Trust Engel Findley Award
- RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers
- Writers’ Trust McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize
- Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers
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