Rosemary Nixon
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Rosemary Nixon | |
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| Occupations | Novelist, Writer |
| Website | www |
Rosemary Nixon is a Canadian author and novelist whose stories have appeared in Canadian literary magazines and in anthologies.[1] She has published three collections of short stories and a novella in literary presses. She also teaches creative writing and is active as an editor.
Nixon has lived in Canada, Belgium, France, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Spain, where she has worked variously as a freelance consultant, a creative writing teacher to classroom teachers,[2] and emerging writers, and as an editor.
Nixon has worked as a writer-in-residence across Canada. She was awarded the 1996-97 Canadian Writer-in-Residency for the Markin-Flanagan Distinguished Writers Programme at the University of Calgary, Alberta. She served as Writer-in Residence at the University of Windsor, Ontario in 2010–2011.[3] In 2011, Nixon was a judge for the CBC Short Story Prize.[2] She was The Canadian Author Association Writer-in-Residence for Southern Alberta in the autumn of 2012. She was Writer-in-Residence at the Saskatoon Public Library, Saskatchewan in 2013–2014.[4] She had the position of Writer-in-Residence at Calgary's Memorial Park Library for the autumn term of 2014.[5] In 2016, she taught Creative Writing in the Master of Fine Arts Creative Writing program[6] at the University of Saskatchewan. She became the University of Windsor Writer-in-Residence again in early 2022.[7] In 2022, she was also Writer-in-Residence at the Alexandra Centre.[8]
