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About Shauna BaldwinShauna Singh Baldwin

Shauna Singh Baldwins first novel What the Body Remembers was published in 1999 by Knopf Canada Transworld UK Doubleday USA and (as an audiobook) by Goose Lane Editions. It received the 2000 Commonwealth Writer's Prize for Best Book (Canada-Caribbean region) and has been translated into fourteen languages. Her second novel The Tiger Claw was a finalist for Canada's Giller Prize 2004. Shauna is the author of English Lessons and Other Stories and coauthor of A Foreign Visitors Survival Guide to America. Her awards include the 1995 Writers Union of Canada Award for short prose and the 1997 Canadian Literary Award. English Lessons received the 1996 Friends of American Writers Award. A former radio producer and ecommerce consultant her fiction and poems are widely published in literary magazines and anthologies in the US Canada and India. She has served on several juries and teaches short courses in creative writing. Shauna holds an MBA from Marquette University and an MFA from the University of British Columbia. We Are Not in Pakistan: Stories was published by Goose Lane Editions in 2007. Shaunas third novel The Selector of Souls was published by Knopf Canada in September 2012. Reviews reading schedule and interviews at: www.ShaunaSinghBaldwin.com.