Shandi Mitchell
# Shandi Mitchell

Shandi Mitchell is a Canadian novelist and filmmaker. Her first novel Under This Unbroken Sky won a 2010 Commonwealth Writers' Prize and other awards. She graduated from Dalhousie University.

Her newest novel, The Waiting Hours, is slated for publication in 2019.

## Awards and honors

* 2012: Kobzar Literary Award, Under This Unbroken Sky
* 2010: Commonwealth Writers' Prize (first novel, Canada and the Caribbean), Under This Unbroken Sky
* 2010: Thomas Head Raddall Award, Under This Unbroken Sky
* 2008: Victor Martin-Lynch Staunton Endowment in Media Arts, Canada Council

## Works

Literary

* 2011 - Under This Unbroken Sky (ISBN 978-0-06-177402-7)
* 2019 - The Waiting Hours

Film

* 2002 Baba's House (short)
* 2005 Tell Me (short)
* 2012 The Disappeared
