Sharon Kirsch

Sharon Kirsch was born in Montreal and has lived in York,England, and Washington, D.C. She graduated from McGill University and was later awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship to study Middle English at the University of York in England. More recently, she completed a program in creative non-fiction at the Humber School for Writers, studying with Howard Norman.Her travel stories have appeared in The Globe and Mail, The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times. She is a freelance editor and writer with a longstanding passion for animals, as reflected in her first book, What Species of Creatures. Her second book, The Smallest Objective, is a memoir of 20th-century Montreal (for details, click on the book cover image below).