Jury Citation
“For twenty-five years, Shaena Lambert’s novels and stories have presciently examined questions that haunt us today: the destructive power of our technologies, the protections we owe to the earth, and the possibilities — perilous and hopeful — of collective political action. We marvelled at her craft, the emotional heft of her storytelling, and the grace with which she writes across geographical, temporal, linguistic, and experiential lines. Agitator or pacifist, saviour or survivor, her characters are never at ease with the roles in which they have been cast, and their attempts at transformation are a reckoning with a world that is broken but not beyond repair. Shaena Lambert has already gifted us with so many spellbinding, transformative reading experiences, and we eagerly await the brilliant work to come.”— 2026 Writers’ Trust Engel Findley Award Jury (Michael Christie, Shani Mootoo, Madeleine Thien)
