SUZANNE DESROCHERS

 

Education

 

MA, York University, Toronto, 2007

Concentrations:  Creative Writing, History, Women’s Studies

Thesis: Women of their Time: Writing Historical Fiction on the Filles du roi of New France

Supervisors: Jane Couchman, Roberto Perin, Susan Swan

 

BA (Honours, bilingual), Glendon College, York University, Toronto, 2000

Majors: Women’s Studies & English Literature

 

Humber School for Writers, Toronto

Summer Workshop 2006

Awards

 

Ambassador Gary J. Smith Award, 2007
Ontario Graduate Scholarship, 2006-07, 2005-06

SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship Master’s, 2005-06

Departmental Book Award, Glendon College Women’s Studies, 2000

Ethel Armstrong Award, York Women’s Studies, 2000

Stong College Playwriting Award, Wings of a Sparrow, 1999

           

Publications

 

“Filling up on Prague”, travel article, NOW Magazine, Toronto, accepted for publication.

“Oaxaca City: Culture and Decadence Mexican Style”, travel article, NOW Magazine, Toronto, accepted for publication.

“Warm Train, Frigid Land”, travel article on Siberia, NOW Magazine, Toronto,

            September 22-28, 2005.

 

“Odd Jobs”, short story, AJET Across Japan, Tokyo, Spring 2004.

 

“Shooting Stars”, short story, Faces in the Crowd: a Tokyo International Anthology.

            Ed: Hillel Wright.  Tokyo: Printed Matter Press, 2002.

Presentations

 

Academic Conference

 

“The Filles du roi of Seventeenth-Century New France: a Question of Choice”, New Frontiers in Graduate History, York University History Conference, February 16-19 2006.

 

Poetry readings

 

▪ Chi-Ki Children’s Foundation Arts and Performance Event, Toronto, Nov. 2005

▪ ArtBar, The Victory Café, Toronto, November 2004

▪ Womenfest, Tokyo, March 2004

▪ Printed Matter Press, Tokyo, 2001-2003