in 2011 and published as A New Leaf: Growing with my Garden. In August 2012, she published a collection of flash fiction, The Paradise Project in a limited edition book with uncut pages, hand-set and printed on a hand-operated 19th century printing press, with endpapers made by paper artist Emily Cook, using plant material from Simonds's garden. Simonds has served as Writer in Residence in Whistler (2012) and at Green College, University of British Columbia (2009). She currently teaches creative writing in the MFA Optional Residency Creative Writing program at the University of British Columbia and privately mentors writers working in both fiction and creative nonfiction. She writes a monthly column, AboutBooks, in the Kingston Whig Standard and was Artistic Director of Kingston WritersFest. Simonds lives with writer and translator Wayne Grady outside Kingston, Ontario. Works Nonfiction The Art of Soapmaking (Camden House Publishing, 1979) Canoecraft (Camden House Publishing, 1983) Sunwings (Camden House Publishing, 1985) Home Playgrounds (Camden House Publishing, 1987) A Chronicle of Our House (Camden House Publishing, 1988) The Valour and the Horror (HarperCollins, 1991) The Harrowsmith Salad Garden (Camden House, 1992) Fit to Drink (Groundwood Books, 1995) The Convict Lover (Macfarlane Walter & Ross, 1996) Breakfast at the Exit Café (Greystone Books, 2010) A New Leaf: Growing With My Garden (Doubleday Canada, 2011) Gutenberg's Fingerprint: Paper, Pixels & the Lasting Impressions of Books (ECW Press, 2017) Woman, Watching: Louise de Kiriline Lawrence and the Songbirds of Pimisi Bay (ECW Press, 2022) Fiction The Lion in the Room Next Door (McClelland and Stewart, 1999) The Holding (McClelland and Stewart, 2004) The Paradise Project (Thee Hellbox Press, 2012) Refuge (ECW Press, 2018) As anthologist Gardens: A Literary Companion (Greystone Books, 2008) Night: A Literary Companion (Greystone Books, 2009) References External links www.merilynsimonds.com 1949 births Living people Canadian non-fiction writers Canadian women novelists Canadian magazine editors Writers from Winnipeg Canadian women non-fiction writers Women magazine editors