Member Profile

Concordia graduate and former creative writing instructor at Sheridan College and Living Arts Centre, Sylvia McNicoll has written 40 internationally published novels for young audiences and given writing workshops and talks across Canada as well as in South Korea and Colombia. She edited and wrote for Today’s Parent Toronto, was president of CANSCAIP (Canadian Society of Children’s Authors Illustrators and Performers) and a director at Access Copyright. In 2021 she co-edited Writing the Rollercoaster, Stories of Riding out the Pandemic. Her Burlington set Great Mistake Mystery Series features an anxious 12 year-old who counts and analyzes mistakes while walking dogs and solving mysteries and is available in Russian. Body Swap,winner of the 2019 Hamilton fiction award and available in Korean, features a 15 year-old and an 82 year-old who meet in a fateful accident that switches their souls. Releasing May 2022, What the Dog Knows tells the tale of an irresistible canine who communicates telepathically with his 13 year-old owner largely to help her change destiny.