Margaret Sweatman

Margaret Sweatman is a Canadian writer from 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. With her husband, Glenn Buhr, she won the Genie Award for Canadian [Screen Award for Best Original Song|Best Original Song] at the 26th Genie Awards in 2006 for "When Wintertime", a song they wrote for the film Seven Times Lucky.