Shaudin Melgar-Foraster

Shaudin Melgar-Foraster is a published writer who was born in Barcelona, Catalonia. She now lives in Toronto, Canada, where she is a professor at Glendon College, York University.

While in Barcelona, she studied dance and archaeology. After moving to Canada, she obtained a B.A., a Masters and a Ph.D, at the University of Toronto, where she specialized in Hispanic literature, literary criticism and theory.

Shaudin Melgar-Foraster has combined her career as a professor with her biggest passion: writing. She has published four novels addressed mainly to younger readers, and many short stories, all written in Catalan.

Her novel "Més enllà del somni" was translated into English by Canadian author Caroline Roe as "Beyond the Dream".