Join Jennifer Wallace, the 2024 One Book One Province featured author of Miss G and Me, for an evening of literature, music, food and Jamaican-Canadian culture with guests, Oral Fuentes and friends.
Jennifer S. Wallace is a French immersion teacher, judo sensei, writer, artist and author. She loves teaching, singing, painting, reading, travelling and buying too many children’s books. In 2009, Jennifer wrote and published her first book, a nonfiction children’s story called When He Opened His Eyes: Gordon’s Story, about her firstborn. She writes articles and poems for Sister Triangle, an online women’s magazine, and has led writing workshops and writers’ events. In 2020, the non-published manuscript of Miss G and Me: A Daughter’s Memoir was awarded third place in the Saskatchewan Writers’ Guild’s John V. Hicks Long Manuscript Award for Creative Nonfiction. Jennifer was born and raised in Saskatoon on Treaty 6 Territory, and lives there with the loves of her life: John, Imogen, Isaac and their two dogs.
AGE GROUP: | Older Adults | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Writing | Speakers & Special Events | Author Reading |
TAGS: | Author Reading |
The Frances Morrison Central Library officially opened on May 28, 1966. This facility was named after Frances Morrison, who served as Saskatoon Public Library’s (SPL) chief librarian from 1961 to 1980. The Frances Morrison Central Library is the largest of SPL’s nine libraries and houses a dedicated Children’s Department, Fine Arts Department, Local History Room, Theatre, a computer lab, Innovation Lab, SPL's Writer in Residence, Accessibility Services and various administrative offices.