Celebrating the Leacock Medal with Heidi L.M. Jacobs

06/28/20 • 33 min

Dr. Heidi L.M. Jacobs was born and raised in Edmonton. A graduate of the University of Alberta, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Western University, she is currently the English and History Librarian at the University of Windsor. Those of you who are regular listeners may recall that we interviewed Jacobs last June, just after the release of her debut novel, Molly of the Mall: Literary Lass and Purveyor of Fine Footwear. Recently, Heidi L.M. Jacobs was announced as the winner of the 2020 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour for her novel. We’ve invited her to come back and celebrate with us.
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Carlinda D’Alimonte grew up in Amherstburg and has lived in the Windsor area most of her life. She was Head of English at Walkerville Collegiate Institute, where she taught English and Creative Writing. Prior to her teaching career, she worked for CBC television in Windsor researching and writing for a current affairs program, and for the University of Windsor where she wrote and produced instructional and promotional works in a variety of media. D’Alimonte has been writing poetry since she was 13. Her poetry has appeared in several anthologies and in Contemporary Verse 2 and The Windsor Review. She is the author of three collections of poetry, Now That We Know Who We Are, Other Living Things, and Morning Song, and she contributed nine poems to the anthology Because We Have All Lived Here: Poems Along the South Shore.

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https://www.wsupress.wayne.edu/books/detail/shades