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| Sheila Peters lives just outside of Smithers in northwestern BC. A graduate of Carleton's School of Journalism, she moved to the Bulkley Valley in 1979. While raising a family, she wrote for a community newspaper, a regional news magazine, and worked as an advocate for human rights groups. In 1989 she began teaching English at Northwest Community College and also began focusing on creative writing. Since then her poetry, fiction, and non-fiction has been published widely in Canadian literary journals. Her first book, Canyon Creek: a script, was published in 1998 by Creekstone Press (of which she is a co-owner). It tells the story of the eviction of a Wet'suwet'en family from its homesite near Smithers in 1920. Her collection of linked short stories, Tending the Remnant Damage, was published by BeachHolme in 2001.
Sheila's most recent book, The Weather from the West (Creekstone 2007) is a collaboration containing her poems and paintings by visual artist Perry Rath.
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