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Suzette Mayr
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female |
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Canada |
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Literature & Fiction
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about this author
Suzette Mayr teaches English at the Alberta College of Art and Design. Mayr has spent her life in Calgary and Edmonton, where she completed her MA in English at the University of Alberta. She released her first chapbook, Zebra Talk, in 1991. Her first novel, Moon Honey, was published to critical acclaim in 1995. Her latest novel, The Widows, takes the reader on a journey with three women defying the world. Mayr was featured at PanCanadian Wordfest 98.
Moon Honey was shortlisted for the Writers Guild of Alberta Best First Book and Best Novel prizes. The Widows was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Prize for Best Book in the Canadian-Caribbean region. Mayr is past president of the Writers Guild of Alberta and is an Assistant Professor in the English Department at the University of Calgary where she was the 2002-2003 Markin-Flanagan writer-in-residence. Mayr co-edited The Broadview Anthology of Short Fiction which was published in 2004 and is currently working on her third novel, scheduled for publication in fall 2004.
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