Margaret Sweatman
Associate Professor
English
University of Winnipeg
Canada
Biography
Margaret Sweatman is a novelist, playwright, poet, and performer. Her plays have been produced by Prairie Theatre Exchange, Popular Theatre Alliance and the Guelph Spring Festival. She has performed with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Orchestra and the National Academy Orchestra, as well as with her own Broken Songs Band. Margaret Sweatman’s novels have won the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, the McNally Robinson Book of the Year (twice), the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction (twice), the Carol Shields Award, and the Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic. With Glenn Buhr, Sweatman won a Genie Award for Best Song in Canadian Film.
Research Interest
Creative writing; Canadian literature; the short story; the novel; poetry.
