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Winner of The Writers’ Union of Canada’s prose contest in 2016, Susan Wadds’ award-winning fiction, essays, and poetry have appeared in The Waterwheel Review, Third Street Review, Funicular, The Blood Pudding, Room, Quagmire, and carte blanche magazines, among others. The first two chapters of her debut novel, What the Living Do, won Lazuli Literary Group’s prose contest, and were published in Azure Magazine. A graduate of the Humber School for Writers, Susan is a certified Amherst Writers and Artists (AWA) writing workshop facilitator. She lives by a quiet river in traditional Anishinaabeg territory on Williams Treaty land with an odd assortment of humans and cats.