Margaret Sweatman


Margaret Sweatman is a Canadian writer.
Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Sweatman was educated at the University of Winnipeg, Concordia University and Simon Fraser University.
Her 2001 novel When Alice Lay Down With Peter was a winner of the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and the Sunburst Award.
She teaches literature and creative writing, and performs with the Broken Songs Band. As a songwriter, she won a Genie Award in 2006 for "When Wintertime", a song she co-wrote with Glenn Buhr for the film Seven Times Lucky.