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Eva Crocker is a Canadian writer based in St. John's, whose debut short story collection Barrelling Forward was published in 2017.[1]

Eva Crocker
Born	St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador
Genre	fiction

The daughter of writer Lisa Moore and Memorial University of Newfoundland academic Stephen Crocker,[2] she was a child actor in her youth, appearing in Mary Lewis's 1998 short film When Ponds Freeze Over.

Following the publication of Barrelling Forward she was named as a finalist for the 2017 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ writers,[3] and the book was a nominee for the 2018 ReLit Award for short fiction.[4]

Her first novel, All I Ask, was published in 2020.[5] The novel was longlisted for the Giller Prize in 2020; Crocker was the first child of a prior Giller nominee to receive a nomination.[6] It won the Winterset Award for 2020.[7] It was also a finalist for the ReLit Award for fiction in 2021.[8]

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