What type of details about sandra birdsell can be gathered from the following bio? Bio: sandra louise birdsell , cm -lrb- nee bartlette -rrb- -lrb- born 22 april 1942 -rrb- is a canadian novelist and short story writer of metis and mennonite heritage . born in hamiota , manitoba , she studied at the university of winnipeg and the university of manitoba , where she studied under robert kroetsch . in 1996 , she moved to regina , saskatchewan , where she currently resides . birdsell was the fifth of eleven children . she lived most of her life in morris , manitoba . they moved there shortly after her birth because her father joined the army in 1943 . her father was a french-speaking cree metris born in canada and her mother was a low-german speaking mennonite who was born in russia . birdsell left home at the age of fifteen . at the age of thirty-five , she enrolled in creative writing at the university of winnipeg . five years later , turnstone press published her first book , the night travellers . two years later , ladies of the house was published . both books are now published as a single volume as agassiz stories . there are two main events that have shaped her worldview and had influenced her writing . the first incident happened when birdsell was six and a half . her sister died from leukemia . that left a four-year gap between her and her next older sister . she felt ignored and alone even though she was surrounded by 9 other siblings . her loneliness led her to ponder by herself to the nearby parks and rivers allowing her imagination to go wild . the second event that shaped her worldview and influenced her writing was the massive flood of morris in 1950 . her first three successful stories in night travellers are based on that flood . she is a mother to three children and a grandmother to four children . her husband , jan zarzycki , is a filmmaker . in january 2007 , birdsell began a four-month term as the carol shields writer in residence at the university of winnipeg . -lsb- http://www.uwinnipeg.ca/index/cms-filesystem-action?file=pdfs/media-releases/release-070206-2.pdf] in 2010 ,...
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