Kate Braid’s awards include for the Remarkable Woman of the Arts and Pandora’s Collective BC Mentor’s Awards in Vancouver, and for poetry, the Pat Lowther and Vancity Book Prizes. She has also been writer in residence at Mabel Dodge Luhan House in Taos, New Mexico. Kate has written many books of poetry and creative non-fiction including two memoirs of her fifteen years as a carpenter, Journeywoman: Swinging a Hammer in a Man’s World, and Hammer & Nail: Notes of a Journeywoman. She currently lives on Pender Island and in Victoria, BC.
