Sarah Felix Burns

Sarah has a degree in women's studies and history from the University of British Columbia and a masters degree in social work from the University of Toronto.

She was inspired to write Lydie's character after meeting a Tlingit woman from the Yukon while studying at UBC in the 1990s. Sarah's first novel Jackfish, The Vanishing Village was published in late 2007 and won the 2009 Northern Lit Award. Originally from a village outside of Sault Ste. Marie in northern Ontario, Sarah now lives in Colorado but still considers Canada her home.

Previous titles by Sarah Felix Burns

Song Over Quiet Lake

The magical story of friendship between twenty-something Sylvia Hardy and Lydie Jim, an eighty-two year old Tlingit elder from the Yukon. As students at the University of British Colombia, Syliva a... more