Endicott, Marina

Marina Endicott was born in Golden, British Columbia, and grew up in Nova Scotia and Toronto. She worked as an actor and director before moving to London, where she began to write fiction. After returning to Canada in 1984, Marina worked as Dramaturge at the Saskatchewan Playwrights Centre and Associate Dramaturge at the Banff Centres Playwrights Colony. She now teaches creative writing at the University of Alberta. Marinas first novel, Open Arms, was nominated for the Amazon/Books in Canada First Novel award in 2002 and serialized on CBC Radios Between the Covers. Her stories have been featured in Coming Attractions and short-listed for both the Journey Prize and the Western Magazine Awards. Shes had three plays produced and her long poem, The Policemans Wife, Some Letters, was short-listed for the CBC Literary Awards in 2006. Good to a Fault was a finalist for the 2008 Scotiabank Giller Prize, one of the Globe and Mails 100 Best Books for 2008, and won the Commonwealth Writers Prize 2009, Canada and the Caribbean.;

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