Merilyn-Simonds

Merilyn Simonds is the internationally published author of 16 books, including The Holding, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice; The Convict Lover, a Governor General’s Award finalist; Breakfast at the Exit Café, a travel memoir co-written with her husband; a book of essays A New Leaf: Growing with my Garden; and most recently, The Paradise Project, flash-fiction stories hand-printed on a 19th-century press. Her writing is anthologized and published in eight countries. She was founding artistic director of Kingston WritersFest, consults with festivals across Canada, and is former Chair of The Writers Union of Canada. She has taught creative writing in the UBC MFA program, at Sage Hill, and she mentors 4-5 writers each year, here and in Mexico. She lives in Kingston, Ontario.