Samantha Albert

Shortlisted for the Constance Rooke Creative Nonfiction Prize, Samantha Albert was a graduate with a master of fine arts in creative writing from the University of British Columbia.For over twenty years, Sam lived in limbo, balancing her energy between her roles as wife, mother, daughter, sister and friend with the role of a patient with a life-threatening and incurable illness. As she navigated a precarious balance between illness and health, she became an enthusiastic practitioner of tai chi....See more

Shortlisted for the Constance Rooke Creative Nonfiction Prize, Samantha Albert was a graduate with a master of fine arts in creative writing from the University of British Columbia.For over twenty years, Sam lived in limbo, balancing her energy between her roles as wife, mother, daughter, sister and friend with the role of a patient with a life-threatening and incurable illness. As she navigated a precarious balance between illness and health, she became an enthusiastic practitioner of tai chi. She also devoted herself to writing, often saying that while her medical life was her full-time job, she moonlighted as a writer and writing mentor.Her work has been published in The Globe and Mail and Edible Toronto and an excerpt from her memoir, I Met Death on the Avenue Road Bus, was published in Waiting, an anthology of essays from the University of Alberta Press.Sam made her home in Stratford, Ontario, with her partner and son. See less