Tricia Snell's story, “So Late in the Season” is forthcoming (July 2025) in an anthology, Not the Same Road Out (Ed. K.J. Denny, Tidewater Press, New Westminster, BC). Recent publishing highlights include Nellie: An Imagined History (fiction, 2024) and Rooted (poetry, 2023), both chapbooks published by The Little Books Collective (Lunenburg, NS). Other literary highlights include the story “Out to the Horses” long-listed for the 2019 CBC Short Story Award and published in Room magazine (Dec 2019), and the story “A Glass of Vodka” included in the PEN Syndicated Fiction Project / National Public Radio show, The Sound of Writing.

          Her 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 loves to teach and 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.