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ABOUT MICHELLE BERRY

Michelle Berry is the author of three books of short stories, How to Get There from Here, Margaret Lives in the Basement, and I Still Don't Even Know You (which won the 2011 Mary Scorer Award for Best Book Published by a Manitoba Publisher and was shortlisted for the ReLit Award, 2011), as well as four novels, What We All Want, Blur, Blind Crescent and This Book Will Not Save Your Life (which won the 2010 Colophon Award and was longlisted for the ReLit Award, 2011). Her writing has been optioned for film and published in the U.K. with Weidenfeld & Nicholson. She also co-edited, with Natalee Caple, The Notebooks: Interviews and New Fiction from Contemporary Writers – which is based on the famous Paris Review interviews -- and she collaborated on an art book with Winnipeg artist, Andrew Valko, called, Postcard Fictions. Michelle taught creative writing at Ryerson University and Humber College, was on the board of PEN Canada and the authors’ committee of the Writer's Trust and served as Second Vice-Chair of The Writer's Union. She presently teaches online for The University of Toronto, in-class at Trent University, and is a mentor at Humber College. Michelle is a contributing reviewer for The Globe and Mail, with over 50 reviews published. Her new novel, Interference, will be published by ECW Press in August, 2014. She lives in Peterborough, Ontario, with her husband, her two children, a dog and two cats.

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