Suzette Mayr is the author of six novels including her most recent, The Sleeping Car Porter, winner of the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Award, the Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction, and the
City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize. The novel was also shortlisted for the inaugural
Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, and the Republic of Consciousness Prize (US and Canada).
Mayr’s other novels have won the ReLit Award and City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize,
and been nominated for the Commonwealth Prize for Best Book in the Canada-Caribbean
Region, the Writers' Guild of Alberta's Best First Book and Best Novel Awards, and the Ferro- Grumley Award for LGBT Fiction. Mayr has done interdisciplinary work with Calgary theatre
company Theatre Junction, and visual artists Lisa Brawn and Geoff Hunter. She has also
published articles in journals such as Horror Studies, Studies in Canadian Literature, and The
Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature. She is a former President of the
Writers’ Guild of Alberta. Mayr teaches Creative Writing at the University of Calgary, and is a
Killam Laureate.
