Sheila Murray-Nellis

Sheila Murray-Nellis has been an elementary school teacher, a writing tutor at Dartmouth College, and a parent educator. After having her first story published in Cricket Magazine in 1989, Sheila continued writing poetry and stories, many of which were published and some of which won prizes along the way. She was a two time first prize winner in the Poetry category of the Kootenay Literary Competition in British Columbia in 2010 and 2012.

As well as being a writer, Sheila is an avid photographer and can often be found hiking and photographing in the mountains of Western Canada near her wilderness home.