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Paulette Jiles

Paulette Jiles
Novelist, poet, and memoirist Paulette Jiles was born in Salem, Missouri, and raised in the Missouri Ozarks. She attended the University of Missouri where she earned a degree in Romance Languages. She moved to Canada when she was in her twenties to work as a journalist in the Canadian Arctic, and it was there that she won a Canadian Governor General Award (Canada’s highest literary honor) for her 1984 poetry collection, Celestial Navigation. In 2002 she won a Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize for her novel Enemy Women. Simon the Fiddler is her most recent novel.


Paulette Jiles Recommends a Little Post-Apocalyptic Sci-Fi Escapism

Societal Collapse, Plagues, Distant Futures on Bald Stone Planets, and More
May 7, 2020  By Paulette Jiles
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Why Americans Need to Pay for Real Journalism

An Accidental Parable from Paulette Jiles's News of the World
November 15, 2016  By Paulette Jiles
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