Andrea Mullan
The School of Creative Writing is pleased to congratulate Andrea Mullan, MFA. Andrea’s graduate thesis is a novel entitled Spare Me the Details.
Andrea Mullan is a writer/filmmaker who grew up in a large Irish immigrant family playing music and telling stories Saturday nights around the kitchen table. She is an alumnus of the National Screen Institute’s Totally Television Program and winner of the Cogeco Pre-Development Fund for Series as well as the OMDC On Screen Initiatives Fund for Series. She was an Exec Producer on the independent feature Dim the Flourescents which won first place in the 2017 Slamdance Film Festival. She worked in the Toronto film and television industry for nineteen years before returning to university and completing an Honours BA in English at the University of Toronto in 2019.
Spare Me the Details, is a novel cycle comprised of ten short stories about a young woman struggling to come to terms with a life overshadowed by addiction and abuse. It addresses central questions of selfhood and identity as the protagonist attempts to escape the generational cycle of addiction in her family and trace a path toward healing, reconciliation and recovery. The intimacy of caring for her dying father finally allows her to see the fragile humanity of her parents and understand the source of pain in their collective past.
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