Isabel Huggan

ISABEL HUGGAN was born in Kitchener, Ontario, in 1943. In the decade following her BA, she worked as a copy editor, teacher, and newspaper reporter. Besides writing short stories, essays, and reviews, over the years she led creative writing workshops in Canada, Switzerland, France, Australia, and the Philippines. Leaving Ottawa in 1987, she lived with her husband in Kenya and the Philippines and finally in France, where their restoration of an old stone house led to her final book Belonging ....See more

ISABEL HUGGAN was born in Kitchener, Ontario, in 1943. In the decade following her BA, she worked as a copy editor, teacher, and newspaper reporter. Besides writing short stories, essays, and reviews, over the years she led creative writing workshops in Canada, Switzerland, France, Australia, and the Philippines. Leaving Ottawa in 1987, she lived with her husband in Kenya and the Philippines and finally in France, where their restoration of an old stone house led to her final book Belonging . After the death of her husband in 2011, she opened a Writer's Retreat in her stone barn for individuals looking for a quiet place to write. For twenty years was a mentor for the Humber School for Writers correspondence program, and she has continued to work privately as a manuscript consultant. In 2020 she returned to Canada, and now lives in Orillia, Ontario. See less