Books by Marusya Bociurkiw

About

Marusya Bociurkiw is an author, filmmaker, and professor. She has been producing films and videos in Canada for the past twenty-five years and those works have screened at film festivals and in cinemas on several continents. She has written five books, including the novel The Children of Mary, and the award-winning Comfort Food for Breakups: The Memoir of a Hungry Girl, which was also shortlisted for the prestigious Lambda and Kobzar awards. More recently, her creative non-fiction entry, "A Girl, Waiting," was a finalist for CBC's 2015 Canada Writes award. She is an associate professor of media theory at Ryerson University, and Director of The Studio for Media Activism and Critical Thought. She has made ten films. Her latest, the documentary This Is Gay Propoganda: LGBT Rights & the War in Ukraine, has screened in 13 countries and has been translated into 3 languages.