Career
She has also worked as a researcher/writer for television and radio. Woodrow has published two short fiction collections, Why We Close Our Eyes When We Kiss in 1991 and In the Spice House in 1996, before publishing her debut novel Spelling Mississippi in 2002. Woodrow was mentored in her early writing career by the late Timothy Findley.
She has also been a columnist for Xtra!, Toronto"s gay and lesbian biweekly newspaper.
Her occasional journalism, essays, stories and poetry have appeared in numerous publications including The Globe and Mail, National Post, CV2, Write, National Organization for Women, eye weekly and This Magazine. A former resident of Toronto, she now resides in Hamilton, where she teaches creative writing at an independent bookstore and online.
Her second novel, Heyday, was published in 2015 by Tightrope Books.
