It won three Genie Awards, including Best Art Direction, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role. In 1986, her second novel, Dancing in the Dark (1982), became a film of the same name, starring Martha Henry. In addition to writing Barfoot occasionally teaches creative writing classes though she believes writing ought to be an entirely private pleasure and a puzzle. Barfoot was also encouraged to write by a teacher who told Barfoot she wrote well and to consider some word-related career. Barfoot doesn't remember the story but remembers her delight when her mother read the story back to her and the power of creating it. As a child, while she and her mother watched a squirrel in their back yard from their kitchen, her mother told Barfoot to tell her the squirrel's story and she'd write it down. She worked as a reporter and editor for various newspapers in Ontario including the Windsor Star, the Toronto Sun and the London Free Press. Joan Barfoot was born on in Owen Sound, Ontario, and graduated with a degree in English from the University of Western Ontario in 1969.
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