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Sarah Henstra

Sarah Henstra

Sarah Henstra Biography

Sarah Henstra is the author of the YA novel Mad Miss Mimic and the adult novel The Red Word.

Henstra is a professor of English literature at Ryerson University, where she teaches courses in Gothic Horror, Fairy Tales & Fantasies, Psychoanalysis & Literature, and Creative Writing. She grew up on the wild, wet coast of British Columbia, but now she lives in Toronto, Ontario.

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