"Remind yourself and others of the good things," with author Karin Melberg Schwier S4 EPS2

Karin's Nugget of Hope: "Pay attention. Look up. Remind yourself and others of the good things." Karin Melberg Schwier is a freelance writer, editor, and illustrator in Saskatoon Saskatchewan. Karin edits and writes for Saskatoon HOME and contributes to Prairies North magazines. She began her career as a reporter for a northern Alberta weekly newspaper while still in high school. Her series of profiles on pioneers of the Peace River country was published as a book, Yesterday’s Children, when she was 19. In Saskatchewan, she spent over 25 years in communications work for an advocacy organization for people with intellectual disabilities, and produced an award-winning newsmagazine. Karin has written or co-authored six non-fiction books and two illustrated children’s books exploring the lives of people with disabilities, and edited several others. Other creative non-fiction has appeared in anthologies in Canada and the U.S. In 2013, Karin received a YWCA Women of Distinction Award (Arts, Culture and Heritage) for her writing on disability issues. Small Reckonings, first published by Burton House Books in 2020 and now out in a new edition from Shadowpaw Press, is her debut novel. It received the 2019 John V. Hicks Award for Fiction, a Saskatchewan Book Award in 2021, and was recognized by the national jury for the inaugural Glengarry Book Award in 2021, named to the Jury Short List, Recognition of Literary Excellence. Most recently, the sequel to her debut novel was awarded first prize in the 2022 John V. Hicks Award for Fiction, the first time an author has won this genre category twice in a row. Books available at: Shadowpaw Press: https://shadowpawpress.com/ Amazon, USA: https://www.amazon.com/Small-Reckonings-Karin-Melberg-Schwier Amazon Canada: https://www.amazon.ca/Small-Reckonings-Karin-Schwier/ Learn more about your host, Kim Lengling at www.kimlenglingauthor.com