Shauntay Grant

Shauntay Grant is a writer and performance artist based in Halifax. She is the author of several books for children including Up Home, which won the 2009 Atlantic Book Award for Best Atlantic Published Book and was hortlisted for the 2010 Hackmatack Children's Choice Book Awards. Shauntay serves as Halifax's third Poet Laureate from 2009 to 2011. She teaches creative writing at Dalhousie Univristy.