Carol Shields Prize Welcomes Three New Directors to the Board
The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction is delighted to welcome three new directors to our Board: Shauna Singh Baldwin, Patrick Manley, and Ian Williams!
©️ Shauna Singh Baldwin
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. In 2016, her play We Are So Different Now premiered in Canada and Reluctant Rebellions: New and Selected Non-Fiction was published.
©️ Patrick Manley
Patrick Manley is a retired executive with over 30 years’ experience spanning the business and charitable sectors. He was most recently the Executive Vice President of Finance and Operations at Heart & Stroke, served as board chair at Workman Arts, sat on the Imagine Canada Standards Council and is currently a member of the Canadian Accounting Standards Board Not-for-Profit Advisory Council. Patrick is a Chartered Professional Accountant, holds a B.Comm from the University of Toronto and a Certificate in Charity Leadership from CPA Ontario. He and his wife Ann live in Mississauga, Ontario and are rabid fans of European football and avid board game players.
©️ Justin Morris
Ian Williams is the author of six books of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. His latest book, Disorientation, considers the impact of racial encounters on ordinary people.
His novel, Reproduction, won the Scotiabank Giller Prize and was published in Canada, the U.S., the U.K., and Italy. His poetry collection, Word Problems, converts the ethical and political issues of our time into math and grammar problems. It won the Raymond Souster Award from the League of Canadian Poets. His previous collection, Personals, was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize and the Robert Kroetsch Poetry Book Award. His short story collection, Not Anyone’s Anything, won the Danuta Gleed Literary Award for the best first collection of short fiction in Canada. His first book, You Know Who You Are, was a finalist for the ReLit Poetry Prize. He is a trustee for the Griffin Poetry Prize.
Williams completed his Ph.D. at the University of Toronto. After several years teaching poetry in the School of Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia, Williams returned to the University of Toronto as a tenured full professor of English, director of the Creative Writing program and academic advisor for the Massey College William Southam Journalism Fellowship. He was a former Canadian Writer-in-Residence for the University of Calgary’s Distinguished Writers Program and has held many other posts, including Visiting Fellow at the American Library in Paris.
