
Shauntay Grant
Shauntay Grant is a children’s author, poet, playwright, and multimedia artist. She is the author of Africville (Groundwood Books), shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Awards and winner of the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award. A multidisciplinary artist with professional degrees in creative writing, music, and journalism, she “creates artworks that are engaging and accessible, but also challenging, rigorous, and informed by deep research” (The Royal Society of Canada). Her honours include a Joseph S. Stauffer Prize in Writing and Publishing (Canada Council for the Arts), an Established Artist Recognition Award (Arts Nova Scotia), a Best Atlantic Published Book Prize for Up Home (Atlantic Book Awards), a Robert Merritt Award for The Bridge (Theatre Nova Scotia), and a Poet of Honour prize from the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word.
She shares her blend of words and music internationally at festivals and events, and collaborates with visual artists and art galleries to create poetry-themed artworks, installations, and exhibitions. A former poet laureate for the City of Halifax, her poetry for children and adults has been published in educational resources, anthologies and literary journals. She lives in Halifax and teaches creative writing at Dalhousie University.
PUBLICATIONS
- Let’s Play Outside: Sandy Toes (Abrams Appleseed, 2023)
- My Fade Is Fresh (Penguin Young Readers, 2022)
- The Bridge (Playwrights Canada Press, 2021)
- My Hair Is Beautiful (Nimbus Publishing, 2019)
- Africville – FRENCH (Bouton d’or Acadie, 2020)
- Africville (Groundwood Books, 2018)
- The Walking Bathroom (Nimbus Publishing, 2017)
- Apples and Butterflies (Nimbus Publishing, 2012).
- The City Speaks In Drums (Nimbus Publishing, 2010)
- Up Home (Nimbus Publishing, 2008).
- Joseph S. Stauffer Prize (Canada Council for the Arts); Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award (Canadian Children’s Book Awards); Robert Merritt Award (Theatre Nova Scotia); Established Artist Recognition Award (Arts Nova Scotia); Black Artist Recognition Award (Arts Nova Scotia); Spoken Word Canada Poet of Honour (Canadian Festival of Spoken Word); Best Atlantic Published Book Prize (Atlantic Book Awards); Governor General’s Literary Award finalist; Nova Scotia Masterworks Arts Awards finalist; Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Awards finalist; Ann Connor Brimer Award finalist; Hackmatack Awards finalist.