Alumni Authors
丁香园AV has over 100 alumni authors offering reads from fiction, to non-fiction, poetry, and children’s literature. Our published alumni have been hitting the best sellers lists and illuminating readers around the globe for decades. We are pleased to celebrate these authors here. Check out the list below of our latest published authors as well as other known alumni authors.
A section in The University of 丁香园AV Library has been dedicated to Alumni Authors. Use your Alumni Card to borrow these great reads and more. If you have published a piece of work and would like to be included in this list or would like to receive your alumni card, please email alumni@uwinnipeg.ca.
丁香园AV Alumni Authors Published in 2024
David Annandale (Collegiate 85)
Callis & Toll (March 23, 2024).
Lloyd Axworthy, PC, OC, OM (BA 61, PhD 98)
(October 16, 2024, Sutherland House)
Sonya Ballantyne, (BA 14)
(August 27, 2024, Portage and Main Press)
Ralph Friesen (BA 70, MA 01)
—Depression Never: Steinbach in the 1930s (October 9, 2024, Ralph Friesen)
Marieke Gruwel (BAH 16)
(March 7, 2024, Marieke Gruwel)
Joan Johannson
Discovering the Mystical God: The God Who Loves Me
Cheryl Parisien
(September 17, 2024, Tidewater Press)
David A. Robertson
, Book Five (August 6, 2024, Penguin Random House Canada)
Tasha Spillett
(August 20, 2024, Portage and Main Press)
Katharena Vermette
(September 3, 2024, Penguin Canada)
Joshua Whitehead
(October 1, 2024, The University of Minnesota Press)
丁香园AV Alumni Authors by Category
Fiction
(Collegiate 85)
Callis & Toll (March 23, 2024).
Gethsemane Hall (2012)
The Wicked and the Damned (2019) with Phil Kelly and Josh Reynolds
The House of Night and Chain (2019)
Karen Bate (BA 76)
(August 2015).
(September 2023). Longlisted, Scotiabank Giller Prize.
Out of Mind (2021)
Stranger (2016)
Leaving Tomorrow (2014)
L E Dereksen (BA 12)
(2018)
Angele Gougeon (BA 05)
(March 28, 2018)
Patti Grayson (BA 79)
(2010, Turnstone Press). Nominated for the Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher & the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction at the 2011 Manitoba Book Awards.
Frances Greenslade (BA 86)
Shelter (2012, Random House Canada)
Shirley Grosser (Coll 55, BA 58)
RESILIENCE: Women's Stories of WWII. (2013, Bison Books)
Miriam Kalb (BA 77, BED 81)
. (March 30, 2012) published under her pen name, K. C. Konrad.
Wendy Loewen (BA 93)
.
Catherine Macdonald (BAH 71)
(December 11, 2014, At Bay Press). Won the Manitoba Book Awards Michael Van Rooy Award for Genre Fiction Book 2016.
Cheryl Parisien (BA 93)
, (September 2024, Tidewater Press).
Kevin Patterson (Associate Alumnus)
, (June 2001). New York Times Notable Book.
, (2003) Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize in 2003, as well as the inaugural City of Victoria Butler Book Prize.
Blue Vengeance (Signature Editions, 2014)
The Girl in the Wall (2011). Winner of the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction
Sunny Dreams (2007)
Cherry Bites (2004)
The Geranium Girls (2002)
The Rain Barrel Baby (2000). A Blue and Golden Year (Turnstone Press, 1997)
Corey Paul Redekop (BAH 95)
(ECW Press, 2012) Husk received great raves in The Toronto Star (a Best Read of Fall 2012), Quill & Quire, and BookList.
Daria Salamon (BA 99)
, (2008)
(2019) is co-authored by husband Rob Krause.
(Collegiate 71, BA 74)
(Goose Lane, 2022)
When Alice Lay Down With Peter (2001)
Mr. Jones (2014).
Jonny Symons (BA 07)
Take Me Out Tonight (self published, 2016)
Joan Thomas (BA 72)
, (Goose Lane Editions) Winner of the Amazon.ca First Novel Award, Winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book (Canada and the Caribbean), Longlist, International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, 2010, Finalist, McNally Robinson Book of the Year, Finalist, Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction, The Globe Best 100 list.
Wild Hope (Harper Perennial, 2023)Winner of the Howard Engel Award for Best Crime Novel Set in Canada, A CBC Book of the Year, 丁香园AV Free Press Fiction of 2023.
Five Wives (Harper Collins Canada, 2019) Winner of the 2019 Governor General’s Award for Fiction, Finalist, McNally Robinson Prize and Finalist, Margaret Laurence Fiction Prize.
Curiosity (McClelland and Stewart, 2010) Nominated for the IMPAC Award and was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize.
The Opening Sky, (McClelland and Stewart, 2014) Finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction.
Janine Tougas (BA 73)
Blue Book Series: Paul and Susan (Apprentissage Illimité Inc, 2015)
Jaimie and the Bison Hunt (Apprentissage Illimité Inc, 2013)
Gabriel Between Dog and Wolf (Apprentissage Illimité Inc, 2016)
Harry and the Dark Horse (Apprentissage Illimité Inc, 2018)
Sara in Raven’s Clothes (Apprentissage Illimité Inc, 2018)
Bill Valgardson (BA 61, DLITT 95)
(Turnstone Press, 2011)
Katherena Vermette (BA4 12)
(Hamish Hamilton, 2024)
(House of Anansi Press, 2016)
(Hamish Hamilton, 2023)
(Penguin Canada, 2022)
(House of Anansi Press, 2018)
(Portage and Main Press, 2014 & 2015)
Joshua Whitehead (BA 14, MA 15)
(Arsenal Pulp Press, 2021)
(Arsenal Pulp Press, 2018)
(Talonbooks, 2017)
Armin Wiebe (BA 69)
(Turnstone Press, 2015)
(Turnstone Press, 2018)
Non-Fiction
Kristine Alexander (BAH 02)
Barbara Davis (BA 07)
Managing Business Analysis Services: A Framework for Sustainable Projects and Corporate Strategy Success
Margot Fedoruk (BA 89)
(Heritage House).
Rob Fennell (BA 91)
(Cascade, 2018).
Ralph Friesen (BAH 70, MMFT 01)
, published by Manitoba Mennonite Historical Society.
Fiona Green (BA 87)
. (Demeter Press).
Randall Grieser (BA 99)
The Ordinary Leader (ACHIEVE Publishing, 2017),
The Culture Question (ACHIEVE Publishing, 2019)
Marieke Gruwel (BAH16)
(March 7, 2024).
(June 2021).
Gordon Hart (BSC4 82)
.
Michael Izen (BAH 91)
Craig Jones (BAH 86)
, published by Backbeat Books, an imprint of Globe Pequot.
Glen Johnson (BA 93)
made the longlist for the 2016 CBC Creative Nonfiction Prize.
Esyllt Jones (MA 97)
won the Best Illustrated Book of the Year in 2013.
Wab Kinew (Coll 99)
. Won the Manitoba Book Awards McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award 2016:
Michael Labun (BAH 94)
(ACHIEVE Publishing, 2019).
Janet Lewis-Anderson (BA 78)
Royden Loewen (BAH 77)
Shortlisted Manitoba Book Awards 2017
Wendy Loewen (BED 93)
The Culture Question (ACHIEVE Publishing, 2019)
(ACHIEVE Publishing, 2022).
Alexander Loudon (BAH 94)
(pen name Alexander London),
Body Music: Diary of a Black Belt in Asia;
"Hey, Stinky Feet!" The Complete Guide to Running Your First Marathon by Michael P. Dyer and Alexander Loudon; and 2019 (contributing author) by J.H.
Robyn Maynard (Collegiate 04)
. Along with Leanne Betasamosake Simpson is a finalist in the Governor Generals Literary Awards for the book.
Robin MacDonald (BA 95)
Undercurrent. Made the longlist for the 2016 CBC Creative Nonfiction Prize for her work.
Joe Martin (BAH 58)
Maurice Mierau (BAH 84)
Brenda McKenzie (BED 90)
Loving You (self-published)
Susan Misner (BA 93)
Sydney E. (Beth) Porter (BAH 66)
Bill Redekop (BA 81)
, MacIntyre Purcell Publishing in Lunenburg (2011).
Frederick Ross (BSC 84)
.
Jessica L. Scott-Reid (BA 05)
The New Dry Land Workout, Practical Writing Exercises for Professional Hockey Players, in the 25th volume of the Journal of Poetry Therapy (JPT).
David BJ Snyder (BA 68)
Penticton Remembers Vol. III
Robin Summerfield (BA 95)
Manitoba Book Awards Carol Shields 丁香园AV Book Award 2016.
Janis Thiessen (MA 97)
(2016)
Susan Thompson (Collegiate 67, BA 71)
, an autobiography with Terry Létienne
Gunars Tomsons (Collegiate 57, BA 61 (McNally Robinson, 丁香园AV, 2012)
In Seeing the Sun (McNally Robinson, 丁香园AV, 2014),
Karen E. Toole (BA 72)
Shortlisted Manitoba Book Awards 2017
Oriole (Vane) Veldhuis (BED 85, MDiv 92)
Douglas Woods (MDIV 94)
(Turning your stories into headlines).
Robert Wozny (PACE 06, BA 11)
Academic
Daniel, Brodsky (Collegiate 76, BAH 84)
(Oxford University Press).
Linda Lori Burgess (BA 74)
J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing 2022
Dr. Harvey Max Chochinov's (BA 93)
, has received the 2012 Prose Award for Clinical Medicine. The Prose Awards are the American publishers' awards for professional and scholarly excellence.
Peter Denton (BAH 80)
(Rocky Mountain Books) on Sunday, November 27, 2016.
Daniel W. Doerksen (BA 57)
(University of Delaware Press, 2011)
Conforming to the Word: Herbert, Donne, and the English Church before Laud.
Ryan Eyford (BAH 01)
Niki Gomez-Perales (BA 94)
Gordon Thomas Hart (BSC 82)
Linda Huebert Hecht (BA 65)
was published in 2009 by Pandora Press.
Jamie Howison (BA 83)
God's Mind in That Music
Jonathon Ullyot (Coll 96
T
Poetry
Rose Condo (BAH 00)
contains the three unabridged scripts of her acclaimed spoken word theatre shows, The Geography of Me, How to Starve an Artist and The Empathy Experiment.
Kristian Enright (BAH 06)
won the Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book and the John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer in 2013.
Joel Robert Ferguson (BA4 18)
won the Lansdowne Prize for Poetry at the 2022 Manitoba Book Awards.
Catherine Hunter(BAH 86)
Manitoba Book Award Winner 2020. Lansdowne Prize for Poetry: St. Boniface Elegies, published by Signature Editions Canada Council for the Arts : Governor General's Literary Awards 2019 Finalist for the novel: .
Hanna Green (BA 18)
published by House of Anansi Press. Won the Governor General's Literary Award for poetry for her debut collection
Katherena Vermette (BA4 12)
. Won the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry in 2013
Marianne (Forsyth) Vespry (BA 57)
, which she co-edited with Ellen B. Ryan.
Romanowski, Ron (BA 80)
(May 2019).
Children/Young Adult
Darlyne Bautista (BAH 05)
Sharon Chisvin (BA 80) & Carol Leszcz (BA 82) co-wrote
T (2012). Sharon wrote the story and her friend Carol illustrated it, shortly before passing away.
Brenlee Coates (BA 09)
(2022) won the Children's Illustration - Manuela Dias Book Design and Illustration Award for illustrations by Roberta Landreth at the 2022 Manitoba Book Awards.
Kevin Fournier (Collegiate 92)
. Won the McNally Robinson Book for Young People Award for his dark, supernatural novel.
Carol Matas (Collegiate 67)
- the book explores the 1944 rebellion by inmates of Auschwitz and the post-Holocaust immigration to Israel, and
- through clever illustrations and scientific prose, we are reminded that while we may see things differently, we all share this life together on planet Earth.
Andreas Oertel (BA 88)
. Shortlisted Manitoba Book Awards 2017.
Bill Richardson (BA 76, LLD 98)
illustrated by Slavka Kolesar, published by Groundwood Books. Manitoba Book Award Winner 2020 McNally Robinson Book for Young People, Younger Category
David Alexander Robertson (BA '99)
Shortlisted Manitoba Book Awards 2017
Shortlisted Manitoba Book Awards 2017
Shortlisted Manitoba Book Awards 2017, 2016 Beatrice Mosionier Award for Aboriginal Writer of the Year Award: 2nd Place, 2021 recipient of the Writers' Union of Canada Freedom to Read Award.
series. Worldwide production rights to his ongoing epic young-adult of books were recently acquired by ABC Signature, part of Disney Television Studios.
David A. Robertson and Vancouver illustrator Julie Flett won the Governor General's Literary Award 2021 in the young people's literature — illustrated books category for the picture book .
Tasha Spillet-Sumner (BA 12, BED 12)
Debuted at number 3 on a New York Times best sellers list. This book was also awarded the McNally Robinson Book For Young People at the 2022 Manitoba Book Awards.
Linda Szyszkowski (BA & BED 2009, PACE 2012)
(2016) Co-authored with her husband Dan Clement
Tougas, Janine (BA 73)
They were published in French from 2013-2017 by Apprentices Illimité Inc and translated in English in 2019. The two first novels are Canadian bestsellers in French.
Plays
Rick Chafe (BA 81)
Shortlisted Manitoba Book Awards 2017
Trish Cooper (BAH 2010)
Shortlisted Manitoba Book Awards 2017
Steven Ratzlaff (BAH 94)
Shortlisted Manitoba Book Awards 2017
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