Ellyn Peirson

I could tell you this about me… a little ditty I wrote a few years ago, and it might suffice:

I am a lover of oils and potions,

physics and metaphysics.

I seek patterns and meaning.

I create my own music and magic

from words and sounds and silence and shapes

and look for kindred souls

in the ruins of Pompeii.

A little interpretation and my bio is done: The original cauldron for this distillation was Saskatchewan, a harsh province in boundless Canada. Saskatchewan still lives in my soul and my writing. I moved to Ontario, the province of plenty, when I was eighteen. Through the interval since then, my love affairs with literature, physics, music, photography, ancient history, the soul and family life have grown strong roots. I love seclusion and thrive in an environment of music, Venetian glass, gardens and historic stone buildings in Guelph and of nature’s cathedrals on the northern shores of Lake Huron. I happen to be Canadian with roots in England, Scotland and Norway.

Ellyn Peirson is the author of the best-selling Antonia Of Venice.