Shauntay Grant

Photo credit: Raul Rincon

Shauntay Grant is a Nova Scotian writer, spoken word performer, broadcast journalist and musician. She is Halifax's third Poet Laureate (2009/10), and has shared her vibrant blend of poetry and music internationally at festivals and events.

Shauntay regularly conducts arts workshops for youth and adults. Her original works have been broadcast nationally on CBC Radio, CBC Television and Vision Television. Her first children's book – a heartwarming portrayal of one of Nova Scotia’s historic Black communities, dubbed Up Home – was released in June 2008 (Nimbus Publishing). Up Home received two Atlantic Book Awards for Best Atlantic Published Book and the Lillian Shepherd Memorial Award for Excellence in Illustration. Up Home is also shortlisted for the 2010 Hackmatack Children's Choice Book Awards.

Shauntay hosted the CBC National Poetry Face-Off in 2008 and 2009. She is the host of All The Best, a music program that airs weekly on CBC Radio One in the Maritimes.

Selected List of Publications

Up Home. Illustrated by Susan Tooke. Nimbus, 2008. ISBN 978-1551096605

You can send mail to Shauntay Grant
c/o Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia