Gail Sidonie Sobat is a multi-award-winning teacher and author, with eleven books for children, teens and adults, and a number of educational and academic articles. She is the creator/ coordinator of YouthWrite®, a camp for kids who love to write…just about anything!© (now in its 20th year), an international presenter, an instructor in the professional writing program at MacEwan University, a member of the Writers’ Union of Canada Curriculum Task Force Committee and was writer in residence with the Metro Edmonton Federation of Libraries (2015). She has moved thirty-two 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 century-old temperamental house. Gail recently contributed an article on her Palimpsest YA novel, Not With a Bang, to the book, Death in Literature (Cambridge Scholars Publishing)
Gail Sidonie Sobat
