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Sheard, Sarah, 1953-
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Dates of existence
1953-
History
Sarah Sheard was born on February 13, 1953, in Toronto, Ontario.
She is a Canadian novelist, educator, editor, and psychotherapist. She was educated at York University (M.F.A., Music, 1977). She also studied conversational Japanese at the University of Toronto (1983-1984). Sheard has had numerous writing-related occupations. She was a creative writing instructor for various Toronto area high schools (1980-1988), and from 1980 onwards, she has been a guest lecturer on creative writing at several Ontario colleges, including York University's Glendon College and the Humber School of Creative Writing. She has also been a writer-in-residence at the Bolton Public Library (1988) and electronic writer-in-residence at Dr. Marian Hilliard Secondary School. Sheard was the Ontario representative of the Literary Press Group (1980-1981) and the Toronto Book Fair executive in 1983 and 1984. She has been a member of the editorial board of Coach House Press since 1979. Sheard's fiction and non-fiction have been published in a variety of periodicals and anthologies. She is the author of the novels “Almost Japanese” (1985), “Swing Era” (1993), “The Hypnotist” (1999) and “Krank: Love in the New Dark Times” (2012). She has a private practice as a psychotherapist with M.A. in Counselling Psychology and certification as a Gestalt Therapist, specializing in couple and family counselling.