photo: David Baldwin
SHAUNA SINGH BALDWIN’s What the Body Remembers received the Commonwealth Prize for Best Book in the Canada-Carribean. The Tiger Claw, a novel about a Sufi Muslim secret agent who searches for her Jewish beloved through Occupied France, has been optioned for film. English Lessons and Other Stories received the Friends of American Writers prize. We Are Not in Pakistan, her collection of cross-cultural stories, was published in 2007. Her play We Are So Different Now was adapted for performance in India and off-Broadway in 2011. Her latest novel, The Selector of Souls, about a Hindu midwife who tries to balance her karma after a terrible crime, received the 2012 Anne Powers Fiction Award from the Council for Wisconsin Writers. She holds an MBA from Marquette University and an MFA from the University of British Columbia. www.ShaunaSinghBaldwin.com