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First Name Maria
Last Name Meindl
Member Since May 29, 2019
Email mvmeindl@gmail.com
City Toronto
State ON
Country Canada
Branch Affiliation Toronto
Website www.mariameindl.com
Twitter @mariameindl
Goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5206933.Maria_Meindl
Bio Maria Meindl’s first novel, The Work, is forthcoming from Stonehouse Publishing in Fall 2019. She is the author of Outside the Box: the Life and Legacy of Writer Mona Gould, the Grandmother I Thought I Knew from McGill-Queen’s University Press, winner of the Alison Prentice Award for Women’s History. Her essays, fiction and poetry have appeared in many publications including The Literary Review of Canada, Descant and Musicworks, as well as in the anthologies, At the End of Life: True Stories About How We Die and The M Word: Conversations About Motherhood. She has made two radio series, Parent Care, and Remembering Polio for CBC Ideas. From 1993 to 2010 she ran The Writing Space Press with Diana Kiesners. She was a member of the editorial board of Descant magazine from 1995 to 2001. In 2005, Maria founded the Draft Reading Series which specializes in unpublished work by emerging and established writers. Draft puts together a limited-edition publication for every reading. Maria teaches movement in Toronto.
Publications The Work (Stonehouse Publishing 2019) Outside the Box (McGill-Queen's University Press 2011)
Other Memberships The Writers' Union of Canada Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner
Awards The Alison Prentice Award for Women's History (for Outside the Box)
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Genres Academic, Autobiography, Biography & Memoir, Drama, Fiction, Freelance, History, Nonfiction
Available For Readings, Presentations, Workshops, Book Club Meetings, Speaking Engagements
Services Offered Book Reviews, Editing, Freelance Writing, Manuscript Reading & Consultation, Research