This is event is hosted and sponsored by the University of Calgary Faculty of Arts

Session Description:

Dr. Suzette Mayr is a Canadian novelist who has written five critically acclaimed novels. She is currently an English professor in the University of Calgary’s Faculty of Arts. Dr. Mayr’s works have both won and been nominated for several literary awards provincially, nationally, and internationally. During this event, Dr. Mayr will be uncovering the value of Black Literature and History in Canada and discussing the creative writing process behind her novel-in-progress, The Sleeping Car Porter, a historical novel about a Black, queer railway porter.

About the Speaker:

Suzette Mayr is the author of five novels, including her most recent, Dr. Edith Vane and the Hares of Crawley Hall. Her fourth novel Monoceros was longlisted for the 2011 Giller Prize, and has been translated into Italian and Turkish. Her novels have won the ReLit Award, and the City of Calgary W. O. Mitchell Book Prize, and been nominated for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book in the Canada-Caribbean region, the Writers’ Guild of Alberta’s Best First Book and Best Novel Awards, and the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT Fiction. She has published articles in Horror Studies, Canadian Literature, Studies in Canadian Literature/Études en littérature canadienne (SCL/ÉLC), The Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, and in Antipodes. She teaches Creative Writing at the University Calgary.

Contact

Ginger Rodgers
Faculty Experience Coordinator
grodgers@ucalgary.ca; 403-614-3015