Carissa Halton is an awarding-winning writer whose  creative non-fiction has appeared in the Post-Media Newspapers, Today’s Parent, Alberta Views, The Tyee, Globe and Mail, CBC. Her book of essays, Little Yellow House: Finding Community in a Changing Neighbourhood, was published by University of Alberta Press and explored themes of community and belonging. It was a finalist for the 2019 Edmonton Book Prize. 

Her debut novel, Revolution Songs, is in stores October 2, 2025 through NeWest Press. Inspired by a little-known story from her home town about a Communist union, the rise of the Canadian Ku Klux Klan, and the women who fought on both sides, it is a timely novel that echoes the rising polarization of our own times.

She is represented by The Rights Factory and Speakers Bureau of Canada.