About Carol

A lifelong lover of words, sentences, and stories, Carol has been writing since she learned how, and continually works at honing her craft. In 2022, the opening scene of her novel Unspoken History was longlisted for the First Five Pages Pages Prize of the Stockholm Writers Festival.

Publication credits include essays, short stories, and poetry. Carol has been blogging since 2009, often about books. After completing the Writer’s Studio program at Simon Fraser University, she served as a mentor for its affiliated summer program, Southbank Writers, from 2012 - 2017. More recently, she has completed several novel writing courses with Curtis Brown Creative in London. Currently, she is working on the third of three related historical novels, The Secrecy Trilogy.

Other writing affiliations include a long relationship with Canadian Authors Association, where she served as chair of Programs and Publicity. As a volunteer for Canadian Authors, Carol was also the first reviews coordinator for the Whistler Independent Book Awards and Canadian Authors Association, and continues to serve as a reviewer.

Education includes a Bachelor of Arts in English from UBC and a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies from SFU, Simon Fraser University. Since retiring from a career as an English language instructor of adults at a community college, Carol has developed and offered a variety of literature courses for older adults through Continuing Education at SFU. Courses offered through the Liberal Arts and 55 program include Contemporary Fiction with Elif Shafak, Contemporary Fiction by Middle Eastern Women, and Contemporary Fiction from Sub-Saharan Africa. Learning History by Reading Mystery, a course she taught pre-pandemic, was repeated by request in the autumn of 2022.