Sharon Easton

Sharon is among the first generation of Jews born after the Holocaust. Her birthplace was rural Nova Scotia, Canada where her Jewish grandparents and mother immigrated after they fled their home in Lithuania — arriving in Canada six weeks before World War II officially began. Her family didn’t talk about those horrendous years in Europe leading up to World War II. Decades after her grandparents and parents passed away Sharon tells it all through her writings in hopes to keep their memories alive. Sharon, her daughters and grandson are three generations of living testimony that the insane determination to eliminate all Jews worldwide during the Holocaust — The Final Solution, did not succeed.  

Always a storyteller, when Sharon was still too young to know how to write she would take her father’s worn-down pencils and yellow lined paper to scribble lines while she made up stories in her head. 

Adventure was calling Sharon when she moved from the east coast of Nova Scotia to the west coast of British Columbia.  On her arrival, Sharon’s goal was to create a writing community around her. She is the co-founder of The Five W’s Writing Circle, Co-founder of the Salish Sea Writers, a member of the Federation of University Women’s Writers Group and a member of Oceanside Writers Circle.  Sharon is also a member of the Federation of BC Writers.