The School of Creative Writing is pleased to congratulate Erin Steel, MFA. Erin’s graduate thesis is a novel entitled You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby!.
Prior to studying at the School of Creative Writing, Erin worked as a K-12 French and Social Studies teacher in BC and Alberta, and as a reporter and field producer for ATV News in Halifax. While at UBC, she received a Faculty of Arts Graduate Award and the Iser Steiman Memorial Scholarship in Translation. She also volunteered as a reader for PRISM international. Her first published short story appeared in subTerrain magazine and received an honourable mention in their Lush Triumphant Contest. Originally from Greater Vancouver, she currently resides in Calgary where she continues to work on her fiction, poetry, and translation.
In You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby!, the year is 1989 and young women are being told they can have everything. Maeve Morrissey leaves her dysfunctional family in the West for her first year of university in Ottawa where she adjusts to campus life. Maeve’s academic advisor introduces her to Rob, a man whose career is rising on Parliament Hill. The world is opening up for Maeve, or so she thinks, until tragic events like the Montreal Massacre unfold. In this subversion of the traditional Bildungsroman, Maeve begins a journey inside herself, coming to grips with the bewilderment of first love and the precariousness of life as a woman.
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