Sherrill Wark

Sherrill Wark is a novelist, screenwriter, short story writer, poet, book designer, former editor, not-so-little ol’ lady but is otherwise normal. She’s a former member of CAA–NCR (Canadian Authors Association, National Capital Region branch) and is the former editor/designer of their e-mag, Byline. She kills people off in her dark short stories under a pseudonym (Christina Crowe) and under her real name in novels and screenplays. “It's beyond cathartic,” she says. “No jail time at all. And no guilty conscience because it’s actually Karma that gets them.” She has also written a series of historical novels about the Acadian people written from the point of view of Keskoua, a Mi’gmaw woman, and set in Port Royal, Acadia (Annapolis Royal NS): Death in l’Acadie; Refuge in l’Acadie; Trapped in l’Acadie; and Hanged for l’Acadie. (Ms Wark's paternal grandmother was Acadian.)