| University of Manitoba: Canadian Literature Archive - Biographies - Sandra Birdsell (1094 words) |
 | Birdsell is the recipient of Canada Council B Grants and Manitoba Arts Council Major Arts Awards, the Robert Kroetsch Scholarship which enabled her to study creative writing with the author Jack Hodgins at the Saskatchewan Summer School of the Arts. |
| In 1992 Birdsell received the Joseph B Staufer Award from the Canada Council for "meritorious Achievement in the Arts." In 1992 her second novel, "The Chrome Suite," was nominated for The Governor Generals Award and received the McNally Robinson award for best book published in 1992. |
| Birdsell has been invited to teach at the School of Fine Arts in Banff Alberta, University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies, and as a Writer in Residence at the University of Waterloo, Alberta, Prince Edward Island and Saskatchewan. |
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