Jowita bydlowska biography sample
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My name is Jowita Bydlowska and I was born in Warsaw, Poland. I moved to Canada as a teenager. Currently, I live in Toronto. I wrote a bestselling memoir called Drunk Mom published by Doubleday Canada and HarperCollins Australia () & Penguin USA (). (The book is also self-published in the U.K.)
My novel GUY (Buckrider Books) came out in October, to critical acclaim.
I also publish short stories. Like here. Or here. Or here. Or here. (This one was picked for Best Canadian Short Stories )
I teach creative writing at Ryerson University and I mentor clients individually. I&#;ve edited a number of book-length manuscripts, consulted on both non-fiction (memoir) and fiction.
For fun, I read, ride my bike, make music mixes, wander around, and take pictures.
As a journalist, I mainly write about culture, social issues and mental health. I&#;ve been published in the National Post, the Globe and Mail, Salon magazine, The Times UK, Elle, FASHION, Chatelaine, Hazlitt • At a party to celebrate the birth of her first child, Jowita Bydlowska did what a lot of relieved, new mothers might do: She drank a glass of champagne, after nine long months of sobriety. Oops. Make that three and a half years of sobriety—gone in the space of a split-second and not to return anytime soon. Her frankly titled memoir—Drunk Mom (Viking Penguin, $16)—doesn’t begin on that day, but during a much later one, an evening when she’s at a museum and finds a baggie of coke in the women’s restroom. This baggie is perched on top of the toilet paper container, no less. Bydlowska sets the tone for her story that will underlie nearly every decision: “So what do I do?” she asks, then answers: “I pour the powder down the toilet.” Pause. “No, no I don’t.” She gets out her makeup spegel, cuts “a slug of a line,” snorts it, and returns to a party. Immediately, she’s overcome by an appetite for more, “no ordinary wanting.” This wanting fryst vatten more like a giant baby, “a wet hungry ba • Polish-Canadian writer and journalist Jowita Bydlowska is a Polish-Canadian writer and a journalist who has published both works of fiction and nonfiction. Her writing has been described as brave and powerful,[1] and frank.[2] Bydlowska published her first book, a memoir, Drunk Mom, to critical acclaim.[3] She has since published three novels, and a number of short stories and essays. Her newest novel, Monster, came out in September, [4] Drunk Mom[5] published in by Doubleday Canada (HarperCollins Australia, and Penguin US, ) was described as pushing at boundaries,[6] horrifyingly and beautifully written,[7] and "stylistically affecting because it refused embellishment, exposing the trials and tragedies of addiction for what they truly are."[8]Lena Dunham said, "I read Drunk Mom with my jaw on the floor, which doesn't happen to me that oft Jowita Bydlowska
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