Suzette Mayr facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Suzette Mayr
Mayr at the Eden Mills Writers' Festival, 2017
Born	1967 (age 57–58) Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Occupation	Author, professor
Language	English
Education	Honours B.A. in English, M.A. in Creative Writing, PhD in Creative Practice
Alma mater	University of Calgary, University of Alberta, University of New South Wales
Period	1991 to present
Genre	Literature

Suzette Mayr is a Canadian author who writes amazing novels. She has written six books that people really love. She also teaches at the University of Calgary in Canada. Her books have won and been nominated for many important awards.

About Suzette Mayr

Suzette Mayr was born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. When she first started college, she thought about studying science. But she was very good at English, so she decided to change her path.

A class about creative writing at the University of Calgary helped her choose to become a writer. She earned a special degree in English there. Later, she got more degrees in creative writing from the University of Alberta and the University of New South Wales.

Before becoming a full-time writer, Suzette Mayr worked different jobs, like being a waitress. She has written six novels, including Moon Honey and The Sleeping Car Porter. She has also published poetry and helped edit a book of stories.

Her books have been nominated for many awards. Today, she teaches creative writing and modern literature at the University of Calgary. Suzette Mayr has a German and Afro-Caribbean background. She often writes about identity and different cultures in her books. She uses humor and cool, dream-like ideas in her stories.

Her Book: The Sleeping Car Porter (2022)

The Sleeping Car Porter is a book Suzette Mayr published in 2022. It tells the story of R.T. Baxter, a Black Canadian man who works on a train. He is a porter, which means he helps passengers on the train.

This book was named one of the top ten fiction books of 2022 by Publishers Weekly. It also won a very important award called the Giller Prize in 2022.

In 2023, The Sleeping Car Porter was considered for the first Carol Shields Prize for Fiction. It was also a finalist for the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction.

Awards Suzette Mayr Has Won

Suzette Mayr's first novel, Moon Honey, was nominated for two Alberta Literary Awards. Her second book, The Widows, was a finalist for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize.

Her fourth novel, Monoceros, won the ReLit Award and the W. O. Mitchell Award. It was also considered for the 2011 Giller Prize.

In 2022, Suzette Mayr won the Giller Prize for her book The Sleeping Car Porter. This is one of Canada's biggest literary awards!

Books by Suzette Mayr

Novels

• Moon Honey (1995)
• The Widows (1998)
• Venous Hum (2004)
• Monoceros (2011)
• Dr. Edith Vane and the Hares of Crawley Hall (2017)
• The Sleeping Car Porter (2022)

Poetry

• Zebra Talk (1991)
• Tale (2001)

Stories in Other Books

• "Scalps" in Boundless Alberta (1993)
• "Glass Anatomy" in Eye Wuz Here (1996)
• "Toot Suite Matricia" in Threshold (1999) and So Long Been Dreaming (2004)
• "... Gospel" in And Other Stories (2001)

Other Work

Suzette Mayr used to be the president of the Writers Guild of Alberta. This is a group for writers in Alberta. In 2010, she helped choose the winner for the Dayne Ogilvie Prize. This award is for new writers in Canada.