About Gail Sidonie Sobat: Gail Sidonie Sobat is a woman of many guises, some of which include: 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 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, anthologies, and has been broadcast on radio and performed on stage. She is the author of the fantasy series Ingamald, A Winter's Tale and the forthcoming, A Glass Darkly, and has a collection of poetry for adults, AORTIC CAPRICE. Her picturebook, In the Graveyard, illustrated by Spyder Yardley Jones is also forthcoming. The Book of Mary is her first novel for adults. To see where Gail is travelling next and/or currently, please visit her blog http://web.mac.com/gailsobat What Does She Really Do???
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