Rebecca
Fisseha
Rebecca Fisseha is an Ethiopian-Canadian writer. Her novel Daughters of Silence was among Quill & Quire magazine’s Breakout Debuts of 2019 and Margaret Atwood’s selections for gritLIT's Festival's Spotlight Series. Fisseha’s short stories, essays, and articles have appeared in various publications, including the story collection Addis Ababa Noir, and are forthcoming in the Humber Literary Review and Tongues: On Longing and Belonging Through Language. Born and raised in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, as well as Austria and Switzerland, Fisseha currently lives in Toronto.
Juror History
- Awards
- Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize
- Balsillie Prize for Public Policy
- Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers
- Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction
- Latner Griffin Writers’ Trust Poetry Prize
- Matt Cohen Award: In Celebration of a Writing Life
- RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers
- Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing
- Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People
- Weston International Award
- Writers’ Trust Engel Findley Award
- Writers’ Trust McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize
Stay Connected
- E-Newsletter