Julie Curwin is a Canadian writer. A

psychiatrist A psychiatrist is a physician who specializes in psychiatry. Psychiatrists are physicians who evaluate patients to determine whether their symptoms are the result of a physical illness, a combination of physical and mental ailments or strictly ...

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she has a BA in philosophy and political science from

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, a BSc and MD from

Dalhousie University Dalhousie University (commonly known as Dal) is a large public research university in Nova Scotia, Canada, with three campuses in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Halifax, a fourth in Bible Hill, Nova Scotia, Bible Hill, and a second medical school campus ...

, and a diploma in post-graduate medicine (psychiatry) from Queen's University. Curwin is the winner of the 2008 Commonwealth Short Story Competition. In 2007 her story "The Other Side of the Window" was selected as a finalist in The Writer's Union of Canada's Short

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Competition for Developing Writers. In 2014, her partial short story collection "Group Therapy at the Butterscotch Palace" was awarded the David Adams Richards Prize by the Writer's Federation of New Brunswick. In October 2020, she published her first book ''The Appendage Formerly Known as Your Left Arm and Other Stories ''with Boularderie Island Press in Nova Scotia. In April, 2021, ''The Appendage Formerly Known as Your Left Arm'' was shortlisted for two Atlantic Book Awards: The Alistair MacLeod Prize for Short Fiction, and The Margaret and John Savage First Book Award.

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Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Canadian women short story writers 21st-century Canadian short story writers 21st-century Canadian women writers {{Canada-writer-stub