Paulette Jiles (born 1943 in Salem, Missouri) is an American-born Canadian poet and novelist. She was educated at the University of Illinois in Spanish literature, and then moved to Canada in 1969.

Works

• Waterloo Express (1973)
• Celestial Navigation (1984, winner of the 1984 Governor General's Award for English Poetry, the Pat Lowther Award and the Gerald Lampert Award)
• The Golden Hawks (Where We Live) (1985)
• The Late Great Human Road Show (1986, nominated for the Books in Canada First Novel Award)
• The Jesse James Poems (1988)
• Song to the Rising Sun (1989)
• Cousins (1992)
• Flying Lesson: Selected Poems (1995)
• Enemy Women (2002, winner of the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize)