FISHER LAVELL
working-class writer
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Fisher Lavell is a working-class writer. Born to generations of rural poor, she was blessed with a trove of untamed stories and the stubborn will to tell them.
She was raised on the outskirts of Swan River, Manitoba, in a one-room shack. They were poor. Yet, they had each other, her mother’s bedtime books, her father’s Country guitar, and a wealth of stories told and retold by mom and dad and aunts and uncles and neighbours in their working-class, storytelling culture.
Neither of Fisher’s parents ever finished grade five. But bright in school, she eventually landed an education and professional training far beyond her family’s wildest imaginings. |
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Still, her great love is fiction. And her stories are always true to working-class characters, their lives, and their voices.
Her first published story, My Father Remembers His Mother, was typed at a rickety dining table in under two hours and paid her $185. That was in 1992 and she thought, “Wow, this fiction-writing thing is really lucrative.” She was wrong. Nevertheless, she persists. |
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With two large dogs, Fisher Lavell lives again in the house her father built with his own hands. She can often be seen at a distance, a row of blue hills on the horizon, walking the gravel roads and endless green fields of the Swan River Valley.
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