Maureen MedvedMaureen Medved is a novelist, screenwriter, and playwright as well as an Associate Professor in the Creative Writing Program at the University of British Columbia. She has written essays on television and film for the magazine Herizons. Her ovel The Tracey Fragments was first published in 1998 by House of Anansi Press. Anansi published a film tie-in edition to coincide with the Canadian release of the film in Fall 2007, and Les Allusifs has published a French language version of the book (the French language edition won a 2008 Governor General's Literary Award for Translation). Bruce McDonald directed Medved's screen adaptation of The Tracey Fragments starring Ellen Page, which opened the Panorama program of the 57th annual Berlin International Film Festival and won the Manfred Salzgeber Prize. In 2009, Medved received the Artistic Achievement Award from Women in Film and Television, Vancouver. BLACK STAR is Medved's second novel; Anvil will be publishing Medved's third book, her essays on television and film, in 2019. Maureen is currently working on a new novel. Read More Read Less