Shauna Singh Baldwin is the author of English Lessons and Other Stories and coauthor of
A Foreign Visitor's Survival Guide to America.
A former radio producer and ecommerce consultant, her fiction and poems are widely published. in literary magazines and anthologies in the U.S.A., Canada, and India.
Shauna's awards include India's international Nehru Award (gold medal) for public speaking, and the national Shastri Award, a silver medal for English prose. She is the recipient of the 1995 Writer's Union of Canada Award for short prose and the 1997 Canadian Literary Award. English Lessons received the 1996 Friends of American Writers Award.
Her first novel, What the Body Remembers, was published in1999 by Knopf Canada, Transworld UK, and Doubleday USA. It received the 2000 Commonwealth Writer's Prize for Best Book in the Canada-Caribbean region and has been translated into twelve languages. She received a Wisconsin Arts Board Literary Arts Fellowship in 2003. Her second novel The Tiger Claw was a finalist for the 2004 Giller Prize.
We Are Not in Pakistan: Stories was launched in Toronto on Sept 19, 2007. Shauna is currently working on her sixth book, another novel.
