Shawn Bird (BA, MEd) is an author, poet, and educator in the beautiful Shuswap region of British Columbia.
Shawn is the author of several novellas, novels, short stories and poetry collections. Her novella length interconnected noir short story collection Murdering Mr. Edwards (Coffin Hop Press April 2018) was nominated for an Arthur Ellis Crime Writers Award. Her YA fantasy series Grace Awakening set in Calgary and the Shuswap region of BC was nominated for a Whistler Independent Book Award. She has been represented by Transatlantic Agency in Toronto. She is available for writing workshops or author visits to schools or adult groups.
She has some poetry books available: see the links on the Poetry page linked above.  She posts a new poem frequently on the blog.
Shawn is a member of both the BC Teachers’ Federation and the Federation of BC Writers. For good measure, she is also a member of the North Okanagan Shuswap Teachers Association and the Shuswap Association of Writers, since it is always good to associate with other teachers and writers!
Shawn is a member of the Rotary Club of Salmon Arm (Shuswap) She has been club president twice. She is a Paul Harris Fellow (+2). She is a former Rotary Youth Exchange Student to Finland. This suggests that people believe she is a responsible member of society.  She is conversationally fluent in two languages besides English, and dabbles at a variety of others. She loves language and communicating across cultures.  Shawn moderates a blog of non-sectarian Rotary Invocations, as well.
She has one handsome, amazing, thoughtful husband (he does laundry!), two unique and independent human children, and a very smart miniature poodle who has some performance titles after his fancy name. She has a million memories made by three other funny, worshipful, delightfully curly canine children, now all buried in the back yard. There are no human children buried in the back yard.