Linda Svendsen is a fiction and television writer based in New Westminster, Canada. She is a Professor at the UBC School of Creative Writing.​ 

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Linda was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 2006.

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Additionally, her work has received support from the Wallace Stegner Fellowship (Stanford University), the Bunting Fellowship (Radcliffe), two National Endowment for the Arts Awards in Fiction, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship. 

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Her short fiction has appeared in The Atlantic, Best Canadian Stories, O. Henry Prize Stories, and The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction, among others.

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Representation: Robin Straus Agency, Inc.

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