Complex sentence: Smart returned to Canada for a brief stay in 1982-1983, becoming writer-in-residence at the University of Alberta, and afterwards spending another year in Toronto on a Canada Council writer's grant.
Split into simpler sentences: Smart returned to Canada for a brief stay from 1982 to 1983, becoming writer-in-residence at the University of Alberta. Afterwards she spent a year in Toronto on a Canada Council writer's grant.