Susan Perly is a

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journalist and fiction writer, whose novel ''Death Valley'' was a longlisted nominee for the 2016

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. A longtime journalist for

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, she was a producer for '' Morningside'' who became best known for her ''Letters from Latin America'' series of reports from

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s in Central and South America in the early 1980s, she later created a similar series of reports, ''Letters from Baghdad'', for the network during the 1990

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."Death Valley an absurd take on an absurd world"
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'', May 15, 2016. She was also a producer of documentaries for the network's '' Sunday Morning''. She began publishing short stories in the late 1980s, winning second prize in the short story section of the CBC Literary Awards in 1988. Her first novel, ''Love Street'', was published in 2001, and ''Death Valley'' followed in 2016. She is the daughter of Al and Belle Perly, the founders of the Toronto-based map company Perly's Maps. She is married to poet Dennis Lee."A poet and an alley cat". ''

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'', November 23, 2002.

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