Canadian comedian and writer and editor (born 1969)
Marnie Woodrow (born 1969) is a Canadian comedian and writer and editor. She has also worked as an editor, magazine writer and as a researcher for TV and radio.
Woodrow has published two short fiction collections, "Why We Close Our Eyes When We Kiss" in 1991 and "In the Spice House" in 1996, before publishing her debut novel "Spelling Mississippi" in 2002. "Spelling Mississippi" was shortlisted for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award in 2003.
Woodrow was mentored in her early writing career by the late Timothy Findley. She has also been a columnist for "Xtra!", Toronto's gay and lesbian biweekly newspaper. Her occasional journalism, essays, stories and poetry have appeared in numerous publications including "The Globe and Mail", "National Post", "CV2", "Write", "NOW", "eye weekly" and "This Magazine".
A former resident of Toronto, she now resides in Barrie, where she writes and performs her thrice-weekly YouTube comedy show, Happyesque with Merna Wolf. A former writing instructor at the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies, she continues to mentor aspiring writers of all ages.
Her second novel, "Heyday", was published in 2015 by Tightrope Books and won the Hamilton Arts Council Fiction prize as well as a Golden Crown Literary Award; it was also short-listed for the Toronto Book Award.
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