Carol Windley
Carol Ann Windley ( born June 18, 1947 in Tofino, British Columbia, Canada ) is a Canadian writer who wrote novels and short stories. In 2007 she won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize.
Life
Carol Windley was born in 1947 in Tofino, British Columbia. She grew up in British Columbia and Alberta and worked as an office assistant at a radio station and as a librarian. Her first short story collection, Visible Light ( 1993), won the Bumbershoot Award, and was nominated for the 1994 Governor General's Award for English Fiction 1993 and the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize.
This was followed in 1998 her first novel, Breathing Under Water. 2002 Carol Windley won the Western Magazine Award for the single short story What Saffi Knows, which later became the introductory story in her short story collection Homeschooling (2006). This book was shortlisted for the 2006 Giller Prize and Scotiabank received the 2007 belonging to the BC Book Prizes Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize.
In addition, Windley teaches creative writing at Malaspina University - College. Their stories they can usually play in the rural area of Vancouver Iceland or in the cities of the northern Pacific. She lives with her husband in Nanaimo.
Work
- Visible Light ( 1993)
- Breathing Under Water ( 1998)
- Homeschooling (2006)