Norma West Linder

Norma West Linder was born in Toronto. She spent her childhood on Manitoulin Island and was educated in Gravenhurst and Toronto. She took creative writing courses at York University and in Ireland through Washington State University. She has lived in Sudbury, Espanola and Muskoka Falls, and had varied work experience from age fourteen. In 1953, she moved from Toronto to Sarnia. For the past twenty-four years, she was an ESL teacher at Lambton College. She is a widow and has three children. She enjoys swimming, film, theatre and globe-trotting.