Shirley Fedorak

I began writing stories about horses when I was six years old, but only in my head. In high school I researched my paternal grandmother's life and turned it into a fictionalized biography. From then on I was hooked on writing. My inspiration for writing and my love of fiction comes from some of the science fiction greats, Arthur C. Clarke and Robert Heinlein to name only two. For most of my life I lived in Saskatchewan, Canada but in 2006 my husband Robert and I moved to Cairo, Egypt where Rob taught instrumental music at Cairo American College for five years. We now live on Lake Chapala, Mexico. I am a cultural anthropologist by profession. I have taught anthropology and other social sciences at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada and Cairo American College in Egypt. In 1999 a Canadian publisher asked me to write an anthropology textbook and I have been writing academic books ever since. My latest books are Anthropology Matters, 2nd ed. and Global Questions: A Cross-Cultural Perspective, published by University of Toronto Press. My passion, however, remains in fiction. I have two series that I am currently publishing on Kindle Direct. Footsteps is for young readers, age 10 to 14. The three stories in each book are set in the past, present, and future. Hopefully there will be about ten books in this series. My other young adult series, The Chosen Ones, is a post-environmental-apocalyptic series that I will begin publishing on Kindle in the spring.