Sarah Swainson is an award-winning Canadian writer who has published five books, including the novel The Stone Road, which was named one of the best crime novels of 2014 by CBC Books. She has won several awards for her short fiction, including the 2013 Cormorant Prize for fiction, and was a finalist for the British Columbia Book Prize. Her short stories have appeared in publications such as Best Canadian Stories, The Canadian Book Club Anthology, Literary Review of Canada, and New Canadian Stories. She teaches creative writing at Simon Fraser University.
I did not want to set my world alight, to watch it burn because of the sister I had come to love too much.Sarah Swainson
To get here had been painful, but for once in my life I felt free.Sarah Swainson
It was as though everything that mattered was encapsulated in that last moment of my blissful state of oblivion.Sarah Swainson
At least it was love we were showing initially, and not hatred and violence like you did in the end.Sarah Swainson
