Shauntay Grant

Shauntay Grant is an acclaimed poet, playwright, and author of several picture books including the forthcoming One Day We Will. Her picture book Africville won the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award and was a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Awards, the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Awards, and the Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia Masterwork Arts Awards. Grant's books have garnered starred reviews from School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, Booklist and others. She holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of British Columbia, and a Bachelor of Journalism degree from the University of King's College. A former poet laureate for the City of Halifax, she is an associate professor of creative writing at Dalhousie University.