Nicholas Ruddock is author of The Parabolist (Doubleday 2010), How Loveta Got Her Baby (Breakwater 2014), and Night Ambulance (Breakwater 2016), The Last Hummingbird West of Chile (Breakwater Books, 2021), This Is a Tiny Fragile Snake (House of Anansi, 2024), and Planet Earth (House of Anansi, 2025).
He has won (**) or been shortlisted (*) for the Toronto Book Award (*), The Arthur Ellis Award (*), The Bridport Prize UK (**twice) (* once), The London Sunday Times Short Story Award UK (*), the Moth International Poetry Prize Ireland (*), Sheldon Currie Fiction Prize (**), Manchester Metropolitan Fiction Prize UK (*), Berlin Reader Prize Germany(*), Carter V Cooper Prize from Exile Magazine (**), Nona Heaslip Award from Exile (**), CBC Short Story Award (*), Bronze Medal Historical Fiction Independent Publishers, and one story filmed by the Canadian Film Centre.
