![]() 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. She attended kindergarten at the Old Sun Residential School, and later in St. ![]() She spent her early years in Drumheller, then Shouldice, and on the Blackfoot Indian Reservation, now Siksika Nation, near the hamlet of Gleichen. A striking Drumheller miner with socialist sympathies, her Ukrainian grandfather had been blacklisted by the RCMP in his youth her Depression-era parents maintained socialist leanings throughout their lives. Sobat was born in Calgary, Alberta of first-generation Ukrainian-Canadian and Serb-Canadian parents. She is also the founder of the Spoken Word Youth Choir in Edmonton. For 2015, Sobat was one of two writers in residence with the Metro Edmonton Federation of Libraries. Her poetry and fiction, for adults and young adults, are known for her controversial themes. ![]() She is the founder and coordinator of YouthWrite, a writing camp for children, a non-profit and charitable society. Gail Sidonie Sobat (born January 3) is a Canadian writer, educator, singer and performer. ![]()
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