This is great news about past CWW board member and author Shauna Singh Baldwin:
The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction
Our latest Literary Patron is Canadian-American novelist, Shauna Singh Baldwin! 👏 Our literary patrons are distinguished writers who have pledged their support to our cause for supporting and uplifting women writers.
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Shauna Singh Baldwin is the author of three novels: What the Body Remembers, The Tiger Claw and The Selector of Souls. Her short fiction collections are: English Lessons and Other Stories, and We Are Not in Pakistan.
Her awards include The Writers’ Union of Canada prize for short fiction, the CBC Literary Prize, The Friends of American Writers Prize, the Commonwealth Prize for Best Book (Canada-Caribbean), The South Asian Literary Association Distinguished Achievement award, and a shortlisting for the Giller Prize. Her play, We Are So Different Now premiered in Canada in 2016. Reluctant Rebellions: New and Selected Non-fiction was published in 2016.
Shauna received her MBA from Marquette University, and her MFA from the University of British Columbia. Find out more about Shauna on her website, ShaunaSinghBaldwin.com!