Sharon Crawford

Sharon Crawford likes to make words sparkle. She has 28 years experience as a writer specializing in health care, seniors issues, profiles of business people, artists, writers, health care providers, places, businesses and gardens, book reviews, and of course, crime. She has written for such publications as Quill & Quire, The Toronto Star, Toronto Life, Alive, Vitality, PhotoImaging, Body Mind & Spirit and The Country Connection.

Her mystery short stories and personal essays appear regularly in the Wordscape anthologies. She was Writer-in-Residence (2001 to 2003) for the Canadian Authors Association, Toronto Branch. Sharon also works as a freelance editor and writing instructor. Books edited by Sharon include: Science for Sale in the Autism Wars by Sabrina Freeman, Ph.D., Sex, Soul & Synchronicity by Gail Vibe, M.A.SC. and Blood Never Lies by Ted Aloisio, BA, CNM, and with Maryan Gibson edited Wordscape.

Sharon is the founder (2000) and facilitator of the East End Writers’ Group. Currently, she is writing a creative non-fiction/memoir on her quirky family and several mystery short stories featuring fraternal twin private investigators, Bast Overture and Dana Bowman and Acting Inspector Donald Fielding. This unholy trinity has appeared in some of her published stories (see below).

Selected publications (mystery and crime):

"Crime stopper moves on": a profile of Mahlon Watson, ex-cop and mystery writer consultant, in Forever Young, August 1997
"Justice Canadian Style?" in Wordscape 7. Toronto: MTB Press, 2001 “Unfinished Business” in Wordscape. Toronto: Canadian Authors Association, Toronto Branch, 2003
”The Couch” in Wordscape. Toronto: Canadian Authors Association, Toronto Branch, 2003
“Securing your home against vandalism”: in There’s no place like home, Fall 2004

Writing as S.A. Langevin
"Digging in the Dirt" in Wordscape 6 Mystery & Suspense Anthology. Toronto: MTB Press, 2000
"The Headache Murders" in Wordscape 5 Mystery & Suspense Anthology. Toronto: MTB Press, 1999
"16 Dorsey St." in Wordscape 4 Mystery & Suspense Anthology. Toronto: MTB Press, 1998

Awards:
"Suicidal See-Saw," placed second in poetry contest in Phoenix Rising magazine, 1980

Web site:
www.samcraw.com

E-mail:
angel@samcraw.com