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Gail Sidonie Sobat (born January 3) is a Canadian writer, educator, singer and performer.〔http://www.gailsidoniesobat.com〕 She is the founder and coordinator of YouthWrite, a camp for kids who love to write…just about anything!,〔http://www.youthwrite.com〕 a non-profit and charitable society. She is also the director of the Spoken Word Youth Choir.〔http://youthwrite.com/swyc〕 Her poetry and fiction, for adults and young adults, are known for her controversial themes.〔http://www.sumachpress.com/mary.htm〕 For 2015, Sobat is one of two writers in residence with the (Metro Edmonton Federation of Libraries. ) Sobat founded YouthWrite in 1996,〔http://www.teachers.ab.ca/Publications/ATA%20Magazine/Volume-93/Number-3/Pages/Gail-Sidonie-Sobat.aspx〕 and envisioned it as a multi-disciplinary camp for young writers.〔http://www.youthwrite.com〕 A focus on many artistic forms as springboards to creative writing, provides a unique foundation to the camp. Courses offered include traditional poetry and fiction classes, but also drumming and words, movement and words, playwriting, journalism, illustration, writing for radio, screenwriting, songwriting, etc. The camp runs each January and July, and is overseen by Sobat, herself, a team of supervisors, and a slate of authors and illustrators who are professional working artists. 2015 marked the inaugural year for (JustWrite ), a camp for adults who love to write...just about anything! Her books include the Young Adult/ New Adult novels ''Jamie's Got a Gun'' (a graphic novel illustrated by Spyder Yardley-Jones), ''Not With A Bang'', ''Ingamald'', ''A Winter's Tale'', ''A Glass Darkly'', ''Gravity Journal'', ''Chance to Dance for You''〔http://www.greatplains.mb.ca/wordpress/?s=gail+sidonie+sobat〕 and a picture book, ''In the Graveyard'', illustrated by artist, Spyder Yardley-Jones. She has also written two books of poetry, "How the Light is Spent" and ''Aortic Caprice'', as well as a novel, ''The Book of Mary,'' for adult audiences. ==Life and career== Born in Calgary, Alberta, Sobat spent her early years in Southern Alberta, living in Drumheller, then Shouldice, and on the Blackfoot Indian Reservation, now Siksika Nation, near the hamlet of Gleichen. She attended kindergarten at the (Old Sun Residential School ). Her father’s work with Indian Affairs brought her in contact with many First Nations people and childhood playmates, including those she met while living in St. Paul, near the Saddle Lake Cree Nation. A daughter of first-generation Ukrainian-Canadian and Serb-Canadian parents, Sobat grew up in a family fraught with tensions between Slavic traditions and assimilation aspirations. As a striking Drumheller miner with socialist sympathies, her Ukrainian grandfather had been blacklisted by the RCMP in his youth.〔Martynowych, Orest T. ''Ukrainians in Canada: the formative period, 1891-1924.'' CIUS Press, 1991, p. 442.〕 Her Depression-era parents maintained socialist leanings throughout their lives. Sobat completed Education and Arts degrees and a master's degree in English at the University of Alberta in Children’s Literature, specializing in fantasy.〔http://ouralbertawriters.com/listing/gail-sidonie-sobat/〕 She is also an award-winning teacher of middle, secondary, and post-secondary schools. For the Legacy Project, a high school program addressing the gulf between aboriginal and non-aboriginal students, Sobat and her co-creators (Wally Diefenthaler and Kaye Steward) were named finalists for the Governor General Excellence in Teaching History Award and garnered national recognition and international attention.〔http://www.teachers.ab.ca/Publications/ATA%20News/Volume%2031/Number%203/Pages/Class%20Acts.aspx〕 Sobat was adjunct professor in the University of Alberta Faculty of Education,〔http://www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca/secondaryed/news.cfm?story=94180〕 and was the 2007 Canadian Authors Association (Alberta Chapter) Writer-in-Residence at the University of Alberta Bookstore.〔''Branch Line'' Canadian Authors Association, January 2008〕 She has also been Writer-in-Residence at Queen’s University and taught in Istanbul, Turkey at Ata College. Currently, she teaches creative writing and communications at MacEwan University in Edmonton, Alberta. As a spoken word performer, she has been called a "word warrior",〔''Alberta Views'' July/August 2005〕 and she has performed solo and with SWYC〔http://www.theroar.ca/〕 on stage and in public performances and presentations across Canada, in Doha, Qatar; Cincinnati, Ohio; Monteagle, Tennessee; Bern, Switzerland; Helsinki, Finland; and Hanoi, Vietnam.〔http://www.gailsidoniesobat.com〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gail Sidonie Sobat」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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