Alumni

Alumni Authors

 Janet Lewis Anderson (BA 78) In The Arms of The Angels ‑ Our Journey Through The Darkness of Dementia documents the struggles that come with the progress of dementia and the effect the disease has on people’s lives. 

David Annandale (Colleg. 85) David Annandale teaches the Blue Pencil Series, Narrative Structure in Genre Fiction at the Manitoba Writers' Guild and released The Valedictorians in 2010 through Turnstone Press.

Sharon Chisvin (BA 80) & Carol Leszcz (BA 82) The Girl Who Cannot Eat Peanut Butter (2012) is a rhyming story for young children coping with food allergies. Sharon wrote the story and her friend Carol illustrated it, shortly before passing away.          

Dr. Harvey Max Chochinov's (BA 93) book, Dignity Therapy: Final Words for Final Days, has received the 2012 Prose Award for Clinical Medicine. The Prose Awards are the American publishers' awards for professional and scholarly excellence.     

 

Barbara Davis (BA 07) Managing Business Analysis Services: A Framework for Sustainable Projects and Corporate Strategy Success provides information on how to maximize efficiency and productivity of technology projects, obtain higher returns, and reduce operating costs.                                      

Daniel W. Doerksen (BA 57) At the age of 80 Daniel published Picturing Religious Experience: George Herbert, Calvin, and the Scriptures (University of Delaware Press, 2011) and has also published Conforming to the Word: Herbert, Donne, and the English Church before Laud. 

Kristian Enright (BAH '06) book Sonar won the Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book and the John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer in 2013.

Kevin Mark Fournier (Colleg. '92) won the McNally Robinson Book for Young People Award for his dark, supernatural novel The Green-Eyed Queen of Suicide City. It's set both in Winnipeg and the afterlife and tackles the issue of teen suicide.

Patti Grayson (BA 79) Autumn, One Spring was published in 2010 by Turnstone Press. It has been 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)   Author Frances Greenslade is one of the "New Faces of Fiction" for Random House of Canada, and was in Winnipeg to launch her book Shelter.  

Gordon Thomas Hart (BSC 82)   Gordon Thomas’ latest book is a technical dictionary of botany, Plants in Literature and Life: a wide‑ranging dictionary of botanical terms, and is available online and in hard copy from Friesen Press.  

Linda Huebert Hecht (BA 65) Linda’s book Women in Early Austrian Anabaptism, Their Days, Their Stories was published in 2009 by Pandora Press in Kitchener, Ontario. McNally Robinson bookstore in Winnipeg sponsored a book launch for it in January 2010.

Jamie Howison (BA 83)  God's Mind in That Music will be of interest to those concerned with the intersection of music and religion, and also to John Coltrane fans, students of jazz studies, and anyone who believes music matters. Jamie draws the worlds of theology and jazz into an active and vibrant conversation.

Esyllt Jones (MA '97) Imagining Winnipeg: History through the Photographs of L.B. Foote won the Best Illustrated Book of the Year in 2013.  It was designed by Doowah Design and published by University of Manitoba Press.

Miriam Kalb (BA 77, BED 81)  Miriam Kalb was recently published under her pen name, K. C. Konrad. Her first book is entitled lead me not onto temptation; i can find it myself: Grandma Goes Online.  Kalb maintains an ongoing blog about this book at www.miriamkalb.blogspot.com/ .                                                                                                    

Alexander Loudon (BAH 94)  The One Percent, her fourth book, is available at www.theonepercentbook.com. Alexander is President & CEO of Sonic Omnimedia, Inc. in Asheville, North Carolina, where she’s been awarded the 2011 Maryland Women In Business Champion of the Year by the U.S. Small Business Administration.

Brenda McKenzie (BED 90) Brenda self-published a novel based on her experiences going through the trauma of helping a family member diagnosed with dementia.  By using both factual and fictional elements, the novel tells a story that becomes both entertaining and informative. Loving You is her first novel.

Susan Misner (BA 93) It’s Your Money, Honey encourages women of all ages to take a greater interest and  role in financial issues that affect their everyday lives and financial futures. This guide to wealth creation, wealth management, and financial protection provides advice that smart women need to know to take charge of their finances. 

Alison Preston (Colleg. 67, BA 88)  The Girl in the Wall (Signature Editions, 2012) won the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction. Alison has been nominated for the John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer twice . The Girl in the Wall is her sixth novel.

Bill Redekop (AA 81)  Noted Winnipeg Free Press writer and UWinnipeg Associate Alumni Bill Redekop has released Made in Manitoba: The Best of Open Road Stories, through MacIntyre Purcell Publishing in Lunenburg (2011). 

Corey Paul Redekop (BAH 95)  Corey recently published his second novel HUSK (ECW Press, 2012) to great reviews, including raves in The Toronto Star (a Best Read of Fall 2012), Quill & Quire, and BookList. He has appeared at Winnipeg's THIN AIR Festival and Toronto's International Festival of Authors.

Jessica L. Scott-Reid (BA 05)   University of Winnipeg alum Jessica L. Scott-Reid and her husband, professional hockey player Brandon Reid have created and published, “The New Dry Land Workout, Practical Writing Exercises for Professional Hockey Players”, in the 25th volume of the Journal of Poetry Therapy (JPT). 

Bill Valgardson (BA 61, DLITT 95)  Valgardson read with none other than W.P. Kinsella (a former student) in Vancouver, where their event, Bears and Butterflies: New Stories from Two Masters was held. Valgardson’s What The Bear Said: Skald tales from New Iceland folk tales from Lake Winnipeg was published in 2011 by Turnstone Press. 

Oriole (Vane) Veldhuis (BED 85, MDiv 92)   In 2012 Oriole published FOR ELISE: Unveiling the Forgotten Woman on the Criddle Homestead, a work of creative non-fiction about her great-grandmother who grew up in Heidelberg and toiled from 1882-1903 on the Criddle Homestead near Shilo, Manitoba. 

Marianne (Forsyth) Vespry (BA 57)  Marianne recently published a poetry anthology Celebrating Poets Over 70, which she co-edited with Ellen B. Ryan. It can be found at http://www.celebratingpoetsover70.ca/ and she generously donated a copy to The University of Winnipeg Library.