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Gail Sidonie Sobat….

is a witch at heart, a pirate in her dreams, and a gypsy in practice. She has assumed any number of disguises in her lifetime, including that of teacher, adjunct professor, woman-in-black, professional actor and singer, grounds keeper, flag girl, parimutuel seller and flower seller. She is the creator/ coordinator of YouthWrite, a camp for kids who love to write, a teacher at the University of Alberta Hospital School, an instructor in the University of Alberta Faculty of Education, and the Canadian Authors Association (Alberta Chapter) Writer-in-Residence. 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 near-century-old temperamental 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. Described as vivacious and lively, Gail is frequently sought after as a speaker, workshop presenter and writer-in-residence. She has toured across Canada, including Victoria, Vancouver, Calgary, Banff, Winnipeg, Toronto and Montreal (with the TD Canadian Children’s Book Week 2004), through Northern Saskatchewan with the Pahkisimon Nuye?áh Library System, to Doha, Qatar with the Qatar Reading Association, and has presented at conferences throughout Alberta, in Cincinatti, Ohio; Monteagle, Tennessee; and New Orleans, Louisiana.

Gail’s work has been published in academic and literary journals, anthologies, and has been broadcast on radio and performed on stage. In addition to her most recent novel, Gravity Journal, she is the author of the YA fantasy series Ingamald, A Winter’s Tale (a White Pine Award nominee) and A Glass Darkly, a novel for adults, the award-winning The Book of Mary, and a collection of poetry, Aortic Caprice. Her picturebook, In the Graveyard, illustrated by Spyder Yardley-Jones is forthcoming.

Gail Sidonie Sobat…. is a witch at heart, a pirate in her dreams, and a gypsy in practice. She has assumed any number of disguises in her lifetime, including that of teacher, adjunct professor, woman-in-black, professional actor and singer, grounds keeper, flag girl, parimutuel seller and flower seller. She is the creator/ coordinator of YouthWrite, a camp for kids who love to write, a teach... More