deborah schnitzer|writer
Deborah Schnitzer is Professor Emerita at the University of Winnipeg and 3M National Teaching Fellow. Her critical and creative work includes the award-winning collection The Madwoman in the Academy: 43 Women Boldly Take on the Ivory Tower and the novel An unexpected Break in the Weather, recipient of the 2010 Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction. With her colleague Shelagh Carter, Deborah has developed a number of experimental short films which have screened internationally, including Canoe, inspired by her most recent novel, jane dying again, as well as Rifting/Blue and Is It My Turn. Deborah composed the screenplay for Before Anything You Say. Her next novel, the woman who swallowed west hawk lake, which exposes the desire for reckoning, reconciliation, and truth telling to pervasive fascist forces in old and new world landscapes, is being adapted for the screen by Carter.
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