Saleema Nawaz is an award-winning short-story writer, novelist, screenwriter, playwright and lyricist.

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Saleema's fiction has been featured on Canada Reads and the Globe Books of the Year list, and she is a former columnist at the Montreal Gazette.

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She can most recently be found in the writers' room of the long-running TV drama Murdoch Mysteries, where she is a writer and co-producer.

 

When she isn't busy writing TV, Saleema is hard at work on two new musicals.

 

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