Sandra Bunting

Sandra Bunting writes poetry, fiction, non-fiction and journalistic articles. She grew up on the east coast of Canada and was awarded a BA in Radio and Television Arts from Ryerson in Toronto and an MA in Writing from NUI, Galway, Ireland. After working for CBC News, Toronto, she moved to Europe and lived in the north of France, Madrid, Dublin and Galway. She returned to Canada in 2011 and established herself in Montreal and Northern New Brunswick.

Sandra is currently on the editorial board of the Galway-based literary magazine, Crannóg ,

In her academic career, Sandra gave poetry seminars at the National University of Ireland, Galway, where she also set up and managed the Academic Writing Centre. She also taught English as a Second Language and was involved in Teacher Training.

She is a member of the New Brunswick Writers' Federation, the Quebec Writers' Federation, Miramichi's Words on Water and the Galway Writers' Workshop.

In 2012 she was awarded a Glenna Luschei award for poetry through the 'Prairie Schooner', University of Nebraska. She was runner-up for the 2006 Welsh Cinnamon Press First Novel Competition and was a finalist at the 2009 Irish Digital Media Awards for her Blog: Writing a Novel Online.