L
INDA SVENDSEN’S
linked collection,
Marine Life
, was published in Canada, the U.S., and Germany and her work has appeared in
The Atlantic
,
Saturday Night
,
O. Henry Prize Stories
,
Best Canadian Stories
and
The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction. Marine Life
was nominated for the
LA Times
First Book Award and released as a feature film. Svendsen’s T.V. writing credits include adaptations of
The Diviners
and
At the End of the Day: The Sue Rodriguez Story
, and she co-produced and co-wrote the miniseries
Human Cargo
, which garned seven Gemini Awards and a George Foster Peabody Award. She received the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 2006. She is a professor in the Creative Writing Program at the University of British Columbia.