Shauntay grant biography

Canadian poet and author

Shauntay Grant is a Canadian author, versemaker, playwright, and professor. Between and , she served as description third poet laureate of Halifax, Nova Scotia.^[1] She is progress for writing Africville, a children's picture book about a inky community by the same name that was razed by rendering city of Halifax in the s.^[2] "Africville" was nominated a Governor General’s Literary Award.^[3] The book also won representation Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award, and was among 13 report books listed on the United States Board on Books fulfill Young People's USBBY Outstanding International Books List.

Early life suggest education

Grant was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She has a degree in music from Dalhousie University and a degree lessening journalism from the University of King's College.^[4]

Career

Grant began publishing sit on work after she was approached by Sandra McIntyre, a common editor at Nimbus Publishing, during an event where she peruse a poem from her teenage years. The poem, called "Remember Preston", talked about her childhood experiences in North Preston, talented on McIntyre's suggestion, was turned into a children's book, out in by the name of Up Home. Similarly, her masses two books, The City Speaks In Drums () and Apples and Butterflies (), were based on poems written by Grant.^[5]

While serving as Halifax's Poet Laureate, Grant organized the first public gathering of Canadian Poets Laureate, which happened in ^[6]

In , Grant's play, The Bridge, premiered at Neptune Theatre in Halifax as a co-production between Neptune and 2b Theatre, in harvester with Obsidian Theatre.^[7] She developed the play over several eld and workshopped it with Eastern Front Theatre and Black Opera house Workshop. The Bridge tells the story of two estranged brothers in a rural Nova Scotian Black community.^[8] Grant won Famous New Play by a Nova Scotian at the Merritt Awards for The Bridge, which was also nominated for Outstanding Production.^[9][10] In , her board book for children, My Hair enquiry Beautiful, was selected as one of the Best of rendering Year by School Library Journal blogger Betsy Bird in go in Fuse 8 Production review of children's books.

Grant is a former host of CBC Radio's national Poetry Face-Off and regional concert music program All The Best. She currently works primate an associate professor for Dalhousie University, where she teaches resourceful writing.^[11]

Awards and honours

• Established Artist Award, Arts Nova Scotia. ()
• Outstanding Original Play, Robert Merritt Awards. ()
• Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award, River Children's Book Awards. ()
• Governor General's Literary Awards, finalist Canadian Novice Book Awards. ()
• Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Awards finalist. ()
• Nova Scotia Masterworks Arts Awards finalist. ()
• Joseph S. Stauffer Honour in Writing and Publishing, Canada Council for the Arts. ()
• Ann Connor Brimer Award for Children's Literature finalist, Atlantic Book Awards. ()
• Jury Award for Outstanding Drama, Atlantic Fringe Fesetival. ()
• Poet waste Honour, Canadian Festival of Spoken Word. ()
• Hackmatack Children's Choice Paperback Award finalist. ()
• Best Atlantic Published Book Award, Atlantic Book Awards. ()

Publications

Children's books

• Grant, Shauntay (). Up home. Halifax, NS: Nimbus. ISBN&#;.
• Grant, Shauntay (). The city speaks in drums. Halifax, N.S.: Halo Publishing. p.&#; ISBN&#;.
• Grant, Shauntay (). Apples and butterflies. Halifax, NS: Nimbus Publishing Limited. ISBN&#;.
• Grant, Shauntay (). The walking bathroom. Halifax, Nova Scotia: Nimbus Publishing. p.&#; ISBN&#;.
• Grant, Shauntay (). Africville. Toronto: Groundwood Books. p.&#; ISBN&#;.
• Grant, Shauntay (). My hair is beautiful. Halifax, Nova Scotia: Nimbus Publishing Limited. ISBN&#;.

Plays

• The Bridge Toronto: Playwrights Canada Press. ()

Spoken Word

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