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Queen's Graduation- MA - Sara Hailstone

I am a writer that exposes stereotype and flaw. I hope that my writing will challenge ideologies and inspire those to change, reflect and be reborn. I am from a very small town in northern Ontario and grew up in the woods. I loved stories and lived within these fantasies. Storytelling led me to writing, which led me to history and literature. Finally to teaching because what's a good story without an alluring storyteller- educator.

I graduated from high school with a strong foundation of writing experience. I had won a national essay writing contest about a bullying incidence in my school days that propelled me to fine-tune my narrative voice. Throughout my undergraduate years at the University of Guelph I pursued secondary narratives and lived in the pages of Dionne Brand, M. Nourbese Phillip, Jane Urquhart and Margaret Atwood. (There were many many more books I dwelled in.) I wrote for the Peak Magazine and school newspaper. I then completed a Graduate degree in history at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. My focus of my graduate work was the immigration of Holocaust survivors to Canada and the subsequent societal formations that took place around this diasporic movement. I am fascinated with human encounters even if most I have studied were historically catastrophic, human interaction has shaped our realities nonetheless, and that is fascinating, if not a moral obligation for me to trace. After Graduate school I completed my B.Ed at Queen's which took my writing down a professional pedagogical path of contemplations. Now, I am filling my blog and writing my first two novels.

I hope that you enjoy my writing, or are at least compelled by it, whether positively or negatively. Either way I have inspired change within and around you.

Thank you respectfully,

Sara Hailstone, MA