Colleen Winter

Colleen Winter likes to explore. Books, ideas, and beautiful places. She is an electrical engineer and a former freelance journalist and her stories have one foot in each of these worlds. When she isn't writing she spends much of her time climbing and hiking with her family and an assortment of dogs.

She was short-listed for the 2020 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize in Speculative Fiction, received two Writers' Reserve Grants from the Ontario Arts Council, won the Best First Sentence Contest at Thrillerfest 2018, won the Leacock/Simcoe Erotic Prose Contest, received a SLS Fellowship from the Unified Literary Contest, and is an alumni of the Humber School of Writers.

She is the past President of the Writers' Community of Simcoe County and is currently an organizer of Voices at Word Up Barrie.