bio

Chandra Mayor is the author of Cherry, a novel about the Winnipeg skinhead scene in the 1990s, which won the Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award in 2005. Her writing also won the 2004 Manitoba Book Award for Most Promising Writer, and her book of poetry, August Witch, was nominated for four Manitoba Book Awards, and won the Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for best first book. She was the writer in residence at the Winnipeg Millennium Library last year and was the regional winner of the CBC Poetry Face-Off in 2006 and 2007. Her writing has appeared in the anthologies Between Interruptions: 30 Women Tell the Truth About Motherhood, Breathing Fire 2: Canada’s New Poets, and Post-Prairie. She thinks that knitting is entirely sensible and achingly boring, and not particularly radical.