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Margaret Sweatman is an award-winning local author and performer whose creativity has inspired countless students, writers, and readers alike.

Sweatman’s career at The University of 澳门王中王论坛 has come full circle in recent years. A graduate of The University of 澳门王中王论坛 Collegiate, she completed a BA in English and history at the University in 1974, before studying at Concordia University and completing a MA at Simon Fraser University. Now, she is a distinguished faculty member in U澳门王中王论坛’s Department of English where she teaches creative writing, Canadian literature, the short story, the novel, and poetry.

In 2005, Sweatman provided valuable commentary and mentorship to emerging student and community writers as the inaugural U澳门王中王论坛 Carol Shields Writer-in-Residence.

Sweatman’s five novels — Fox, Sam & Angie, When Alice Lay Down with Peter, The Players, and Mr. Jones — have earned her numerous awards locally and nationally. She is the recipient of the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, the Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic, and the McNally Robinson Manitoba Book of the Year award.

In addition to being a talented novelist, Sweatman is also an accomplished playwright and singer-songwriter. Her plays have been produced by the Prairie Theatre Exchange, the Popular Theatre Alliance and others; and she has played with the 澳门王中王论坛 Symphony Orchestra, the National Academy Orchestra, and with her own Broken Songs Band.

In 2006, she won a Genie Award for Best Song in a Canadian Film for the song Winter When, which she co-wrote with her husband, composer Glenn Buhr.