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Moose Jaw,
Saskatchewan, Canada  A Montrealer by birth, Rosemary Sullivan studied at the Universities of McGill, Connecticut, and Sussex. She is the author of ten books including Cuba: Grace Under Pressure with photographs by Malcolm David Batty (2003); Labyrinth of Desire: Women, Passion, and Romantic Obsession (2001).and the national best seller, The Red Shoes: Margaret Atwood Starting Out (1998). Her 1995 biography Shadow Maker: The Life of Gwendolyn MacEwen won the Governor General’s Award for Non-Fiction, the Canadian Author’s Association Literary Award for Non-Fiction, the University of British Columbia’s Medal for Canadian Biography, and the City of Toronto Book Award. It became the basis for Brenda Longfellow’s award-winning documentary Shadow Maker (1998). Sullivan’s first biography, By Heart: Elizabeth Smart/A Life (1991) was nominated for the Governor General’s Award for Non-Fiction. Her first poetry collection, The Space a Name Makes (1986) won the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. In 2001, Black Moss Press released Memory-Making: The Selected Essays of Rosemary Sullivan that included essays published in Canadian and International magazines. Her journalistic pieces have won her a National Magazine Awards silver medal and a Western Journalism Awards first prize for travelogue. She currently teaches at the University of Toronto where she holds a Canada Research Chair and is director of the MA in Creative Writing. She is also the Chair of the Cultural Journalism and Creative Non-Fiction Program at the Banff Centre for the Arts. |
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