Sonja Boon (she/her) is an award-winning writer, researcher, flutist, teacher, and stitcher of stories. The author, co-author, or co-editor of seven books, including the memoir What the Oceans Remember: Searching for Belonging and Home (WLU Press, 2019), she is a mentor in the MFA (creative nonfiction) program at the University of King’s College, an adjunct professor of gender studies at Memorial University, and a member of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists. Her work appears in ROOM, pinhole poetry, Riddle Fence, The Dalhousie Review, and Geist, among others, and is forthcoming in The Fiddlehead. For six years, Sonja was principal flutist with the Portland Baroque Orchestra.
