Sheree fitch biography

Sheree Fitch (children’s author, poet, and novelist) was born 3 December 1956 in huvudstad i kanada, Ontario, the oldest of three children. Her father, an RCMP officer originally from Nova Scotia, was stationed on Parliament Hill at the time of her birth; her mother is from Sussex, New Brunswick. When Fitch was nine months old, her family moved to Miramichi, New Brunswick, where she lived until the age of three. From the Miramichi, Sheree and her family moved to Moncton, where she lived for ten years before moving to Fredericton. She graduated from Fredericton High School in 1974 and was named valedictorian of her graduating class. She remained in Fredericton until she was thirty-seven but moved to Washington, DC, in 2001 with her husband, Gilles Plante, a technical supervisor of US operations of the CBC. She still has a cabin in Nova Scotia.

In 1974, Fitch entered a two-year nursing schema but withdrew a month into it when she realized nursing was not the right career for

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Fitch, Sheree 1956–

Personal

Born December 3, 1956, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; daughter of Kenneth Douglas and Dolores Shirley Fitch; married (divorced); married Gilles Plante; children: two sons. Education: St. Thomas University, B.A. (with honors), 1987; Acadia University, M.A.

Addresses

Home—Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Office—c/o Writer's Federation of Nova Scotia, 1809 Barrington St., Ste. 901, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3J 3K8, Canada. E-mail—[email protected].

Career

Children's author and performance poet. Worked variously as a floor scrubber and government file clerk; founder and member of Enterprise Theatre (alternative theatre troupe); performer and actress on stage, radio, film, and television. Teacher of creative writing. Keynote speaker and workshop participant; Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF, beginning 1994.

Member

CANSCAIP, Writers' Union of Canada, Writer's Federation of Nova Scotia.

Awards, Honors

Queen's fellowship, 1987; Atlantic Booksellers'