Devyani Saltzman

Devyani Saltzman is a Canadian author, curator and journalist as well as the director of Literary Arts at The Banff Centre. She is the writer of Shooting Water, a memoir, as well as articles for The Globe and Mail, The National Post, The Literary Review of Canada, the Atlantic, Tehelka, Marie Claire, Room literary journal and The Walrus Magazine. Her debut book Shooting Water was published in Canada, the US and India and received “starred reviews” in both Publisher’s Weekly and the Library Journal and was called ‘A poignant memoir’ by The New York Times. Shooting Water is a memoir of a mother-daughter relationship that was rekindled during the filming of the Indo-Canadian film, Water.