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I’ll never forget the letter from Pierre Berton urging me to join the Writers' Union. I remember the giddy feeling of being taken for someone who might actually belong to the same club as Berton, Frye, Findley, Mitchell, and Laurence. They’re all gone now, bless them, but TWUC soldiers on. Something grand, something beyond getting that first book published: a community, a career. A life.
Member Profile
Kathleen Gauer
Toronto children's author, Kathleen Gauer, has published HIGH IN THE SKY (Skipping Stone Press, December 2015) and FOR NO REASON (Skipping Stone Press, June 2017), as well as poetry and magazine and newspaper articles. Kathleen worked as a contributing associate editor for Spires Magazine (a community focus publication serving Etobicoke) for 15 years and as an arts columnist for the Etobicoke Guardian newspaper. She recently retired after 30 years as a Special Education Teacher's Assistant with the Toronto District School Board. When not reading, writing or spending time with her grandchildren, she enjoys yoga, knitting, travelling, and singing with The Harmony Singers of Toronto. She is a volunteer with the IBBY Reading and Refugee Program and also visits libraries and schools with her books.
