Sylvia D. Hamilton is a multi awarding Nova Scotian filmmaker and writer. Her poetry has been published in The Dalhousie Review, West Coast Line, The Great Black North and Untying the Apron: Daughters Remember Mothers of the Fifties. She was a contributor to and co-editor of We’re Rooted Here and They Can’t Pull Us Up: Essays In African Canadian Women’s History. Her awards include a Gemini and the Portia White Prize. Her latest book is And I Alone Escaped to Tell You. She lives in Grand Pre, Nova Scotia.