Carys Cragg

Carys Cragg is a Canadian social worker and writer.[1] She is most noted for her book Dead Reckoning: How I Came To Meet the Man Who Murdered My Father, which was a shortlisted finalist for the Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction at the 2018 Governor General's Awards.[2]

Cragg, now a youth outreach worker in Vancouver, British Columbia and an instructor at Douglas College,[3] grew up in Calgary, Alberta as the daughter of Geoffrey Cragg, a doctor who was killed in 1992 by an armed robber who had broken into their home.[4] As an adult, she undertook a restorative justice project of corresponding with and eventually meeting the killer, which she documented in the book.

References
  1. "What happened when Carys Cragg met the man who killed her father?". Toronto Star, December 22, 2017.
  2. "Miriam Toews, Rawi Hage in running for $25,000 Governor General's fiction prize". Toronto Star, October 3, 2018.
  3. "Carys Cragg's memoir of restorative justice, Dead Reckoning, reveals how she met her dad's killer". The Georgia Straight, November 22, 2017.
  4. "Daughter of slain Calgary doctor at peace with his killer's release on parole". Calgary Herald, August 27, 2017.


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