About

About

Marnie Woodrow is the author of the short story collections Why We Close Our Eyes When We Kiss and In The Spice House, as well as the novels Spelling Mississippi and Heyday.

She has published poetry, essays, short fiction, humor, experiential journalism and fiction. Her novel Heyday won the Hamilton Arts Council Award for Fiction. It was also shortlisted for the Toronto Book Award, and received a Golden Crown Literary Society Award for Best General Fiction. She has participated in the Playwrights’ Junction at Sudbury Theatre Centre. Two of her comedic plays were produced in Toronto. Her Youtube channel, Happyesque with Merna Wolf was a bit of pandemic-era comedy medicine.

A writer and researcher, she is a graduate of the Humber College Master’s Certificate in Comedy Scriptwriting program where she created an original TV pilot.