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Is an award-winning author (selected for Oprah's Book Club): Fall On Your Knees (Vintage Canada, 1997 - "Oprah's Book Club" selection #45, February 2002)

Is an award-winning playwright: Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)

Her second novel, The Way the Crow Flies, was nominated for Canada's prestigious 2003 Giller Prize.

She was awarded the O.C. (Officer of the Order of Canada) on November 18, 2019 by the Canadian Governor General in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Her work is both a celebration and an honest depiction of the human spirit. An acclaimed author, actor and playwright, she has made substantial contributions to Canadian theatre, television, film and the literary arts. She is an equally engaged participant in the civic life of her country as a vocal advocate for LGBTQ and women's rights- perspectives she often incorporates into her writing. A generous mentor, she helps coach and edify the next generation of Canadian theatre artists.