| Marjorie Anderson Marjorie Anderson is the seventh of eight children born to Ásdis and Thorsteinn Anderson, Icelandic-Canadian fishers, farmers and storytellers who lived on the marshland edges of Lake Winnipeg. She has a Ph.D. in English literature and taught writing and literature at the English Department of the University of Manitoba before moving to the Faculty of Management, where she was Director of Communication Programs. Her teaching specialties included writing and speaking skills, interpersonal and intercultural communication, mediation and negotiation strategies and conflict management. She was awarded the University’s Award for Excellence in Teaching and was chosen to teach in a number of international programs, including an MBA program in the Czech Republic. Through her company, Wordwise Communication, she still conducts communication training sessions for professionals and business organizations, and now, most often, works as a freelance editor. She and her husband Gary live in Winnipeg and take delight in their four daughters, four sons-in-law and seven granddaughters. Marjorie’s lifelong interest in writing and storytelling has led to her
involvement in editing and teaching personal story writing; therefore, the task
of compiling the Dropped Threads books was a comfortable
one for her. Especially satisfying was her collaboration with her
friend Carol Shields on the first two anthologies. While she edited
this third one alone, the remembrance of the spirit and wisdom
of Carol was always there to guide her. |
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