Tricia Snell writes books, stories, poems, essays/articles, and book reviews, and is currently working on a novel.

Tricia's story (fiction), “Out to the Horses,” was longlisted for the 2019 CBC Short Story Prize and published in Room Magazine (December 2019, Issue 42.4). More recently, in summer, 2025, Tricia's story “So Late in the Season” was published in the anthology, Not the Same Road Out (Tidewater Press, New Westminster, BC, Ed. K.J. Denny). 

Recent past publications include a fiction chapbook, Nellie: An Imagined History (Little Books Collective, Lunenburg, NS, Sept. 2024) and a poetry chapbook, Rooted, published with the same micropress in 2023. A nonfiction book / directory, Artists Communities, was published with Allworth Press in 1996 (2nd ed. 2000).

Tricia's writing has also been published in Every Day Fiction, Art Papers, Oregon Humanities, The Oregonian, and The Grove Review, and been read by actor Barbara Rappaport on the PEN Syndicated Fiction Project / National Public Radio show, The Sound of Writing.

Tricia’s stories explore issues of identity, feminism, nature, work, music, and animals. Her background includes work as a writer and administrator for arts, education, and environmental organizations.

Tricia has taught writing workshops (generative, craft, and critique), literature courses, and novel study groups for a variety of universities, nonprofits, and community writing centres. She currently teaches from her home studio in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.

Tricia has an MFA (Fiction) from George Mason University (Fairfax, Virginia) and an ARCT (Flute Performance) from the Royal Conservatory of Music (Toronto, Ontario).

Tricia is also a musician. In her South Shore area of Nova Scotia, she plays flute & Celtic whistles for an actively gigging trio called Trillium.