Helwig, Maggie

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Helwig, Maggie

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        1961-present

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        Maggie Helwig was born in England in November 1961. She is the daughter of prominent Canadian writer David Helwig and theatre director and actor Nancy Helwig of Kingston, Ontario. She is married to editor Ken Simons and has one daughter, Simone.  She received her BA in Classical Studies from Trent University in 1983 and earned her Master's of Divinity at the University of Toronto, Trinity College in 2011.

        Maggie Helwig has published six books of poetry, two books of essays, a collection of short stories and three novels, Where She Was Standing (2001), Between Mountains (2004), and Girls Fall Down (2008). A human rights activist as well as a writer, she has worked for the East Timor Alert Network in Toronto, the Women in Black network, and War Resisters' International. She is also an Anglican priest and has been at the Church of St Stephen-in-the-Fields in Kensington Market since 2013.

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        Helwig, David (1938-2018)

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        K. O'Donnell, 2025.

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