SallyVTruss, Writer/Editor

Recent projects include story-editor and project management of Jan Truss's Paper Bird, John Taplin's Easier Said than Done, Lana Skauge's She Walked Away, and the tribute collection of Joyce Doolittle: a community telling. Sally's Skipping Song was included in Shaun Hunter's Calgary Through the Eyes of Writers, a surprising honour. Her poems, rants & songspiel are found in the collections FATES and HWY 22.

She is currently working on material for the next collection with fellow Fates (no working title), a new collection of rants and poems (working title Onward), as well as compiling and editing Jan Truss: an introduction to the archive.

Background

SallyV has been on the loose ever since she 'ran away and joined the circus' of travelling folk singers in the late 1960s. From Highway 22, her world expanded to include Toronto, Halifax, New Orleans, Huston, Vancouver - and many roads in between - by way of coffeehouses, concert halls and bars.

Other roads took her to work in media and communications with CBC and ACCESS TV followed by glorious days at the Banff Centre, Kananaskis Country, Fairmont Banff Springs, Calgary Opera, and the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies.

SallyV now belongs to a group of adventurous female elders - who have been pushing barriers, travelling through the shadows, dancing in the lights - living interesting lives.

Ultimately, SallyV is a storyteller. Her voice is entertaining, evocative - thoughtful. Her collection, HWY 22 invites the reader into her journey and in doing so, brings the reader home to their own.