Award-winning author Shauna Singh Baldwin’s THE NIGHT SHE LEFT LAHORE, a poetry collection steeped in the parallels between past and present, exploring ruptures like the Partition, Covid, the heartbreak and strange triumph of the immigrant experience, the grip of ghosts of generations past, along with moments of whimsy and humour, to Canisia Lubrin, Poetry Editor at McClelland & Stewart, for publication Spring 2028, by Samantha Haywood at Transatlantic Agency (Canada).
Shauna Singh Baldwin is the author of three novels: What the Body Remembers, The Tiger Claw and The Selector of Souls. Her short fiction collections are: English Lessons and Other Stories, and We Are Not in Pakistan. Her awards include The Writers’ Union of Canada prize for short fiction, the CBC Literary Prize, The Friends of American Writers Prize, the Commonwealth Prize for Best Book (Canada-Caribbean), and a shortlisting for Canada’s Giller Prize.
Shauna received her MBA from Marquette University, and her MFA from the University of British Columbia. Her play, We Are So Different Now premiered in Canada in 2016. Her latest book of essays is Reluctant Rebellions: new and selected nonfiction. She is a court interpreter and serves on the boards of the Carol Shields Prize and Wisconsin Public Radio. www.ShaunaSinghBaldwin.com
Shauna is represented by Samantha Haywood.
Congratulations, Shauna!