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Gail Sidonie Sobat
Gail Sidonie Sobat is a woman of many guises: writer, singer, actor, teacher, professor, young writers' camp coordinator, woman-in-black and gypsy. She has moved twenty-seven times in her life from Badlands to Siksika Nation Reserve to hideous suburbs to Istanbul to the Sunshine Coast to her writer's garret in a temperamental centenarian house.
Gail completed a Master's degree in English at the University of Alberta in Children's Literature, specializing in fantasy. She is also an award-winning teacher. For the Legacy Project, a high school program addressing the gulf between aboriginal and non-aboriginal students, Gail and her co-creators (Wally Diefenthaler and Kaye Steward) were named finalists for the GG Excellence in Teaching History Award and garnered national recognition. Gail is also the creator and coordinator of YouthWrite, a provincial summer arts writing camp for young people, now in its twelfth year. www.youthwrite.ca
Her work has been published in academic and literary journals, and anthologies, and has been broadcast on radio and performed on stage. Most recently her poetry was broadcast on CBC Radio in celebration of National Poetry Month. In addition to her novel for adults, The Book of Mary, she is the author of the YA fantasy series Ingamald, A Winter's Tale and A Glass Darkly, and has a collection of poetry, Aortic Caprice. Her picturebook, In the Graveyard, illustrated by Spyder Yardley-Jones is forthcoming from Orca in 2008 and her newest novel, Gravity Journal, will be released from Great Plains the same year. www.gailsidoniesobat.com
The Book of Mary
Categories
· Literary Fiction
· Women's Fiction
interview with the author»
(6.9MB mp3 file)
256 pages
6" x 9"
$16.95 paper
ISBN: 978-1-894549-54-7
