About Sheila

Sheila Baslaw began writing children’s stories after a career in social work. Intrigued by the stories her parents told about growing up in a shtetl, she based Shmuel on her father’s life as a Jewish child in Russia in the early 1900s. Sheila, now in her nineties, lives in Ottawa and enjoys walking with friends and belongs to study, writing, and poetry groups.

Future plans include visiting more schools, presenting at several bookstores ie Indigo and Westboro Books, and continuing to write shtetl stories. Sheila recently had a new story critiqued by her Scribbling Sisters writing group.