Mary W. Walters writes fiction, non-fiction and drama. She has worked at various times as executive director of the Writers Guild of Alberta, editor-in-chief at Lone Pine Publishing, and as a freelance writer and editor. She has published two novels, The Woman Upstairs (NeWest Press, 1987) and Bitters (NeWest, 1999), and a collection of short stories (Cool, River Books, 2000). She has won a Writers Guild of Alberta Award for Excellence in Writing and an Alberta Achievement Award, and she is listed in Who’s Who in Canada. Her short fiction has been short-listed for such prizes as the CBC/Saturday Night Fiction Competition and the Journey Prize, and has been published in more than a dozen literary journals and magazines including, most recently, Giest. She has written and narrated two programs for CBC’s Ideas, one about solitude and one in defence of procrastination.
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