Nora Decter

Title: Instructor
Building: Ashdown
Email: n.decter@uwinnipeg.ca

Biography:

Nora Decter is a writer, musician and educator from the North End of Winnipeg. She has a BA in English and Creative Writing from York University (Toronto) and an MFA in Creative Writing and Literature from Stony Brook University (Southampton, NY). Her research interests include socialist, feminist and experimental novels; language and identity; and the interplay between form and meaning in literary texts. 

Teaching Areas:
Contemporary Literature, The Novel, Creative Writing, Creative Non-fiction, Young Adult Literature, Academic Writing. 

Courses:

(F) ENGL-1000-770: English 1A

(FW) ENGL-1001-250/251: English 1

(W) ENGL-1000-007: English 1A 

(W) ENGL-1005-004: Intro: Reading to Write

Publications:

Books:

How Far We Go and How Fast. Orca Book Publishers. 2018

Essays and Short Stories: 

Review of Take Us to Your Chief, by Drew Hayden Taylor, The Malahat Review. Spring 2017 

“Learning to Love Genre”, The Town Crier. November, 2016

“The Blues Guitar”, Cowboy Jamboree Magazine. Fall 2016

“Sponsor Me”, Fifth Wednesday Journal. Spring 2016

“Bad Hand”, TSR: The Southampton Review. Summer 2015