Shauntay Grant is a poet, playwright, interdisciplinary artist and children’s author. Creating art that illuminates African Nova Scotian and African diasporic histories and experiences is a vital part of her research and work. Grant is a member of The Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists and has won the Joseph S. Stauffer Prize, the Robert Merritt Award for her stage play The Bridge, the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award for Africville, and a Poet of Honour prize from the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word. She is also a former poet laureate for the City of Halifax and co-founder of Erasure Art Collective, an interdisciplinary arts group committed to researching and reinterpreting archival texts using visual, poetic, and performative erasure. Grant’s recent publications include children's picture book When I Wrap My Hair, a stage play called Beyere, and her edited anthology of solo plays by Black Canadian women, From The Ashes. She teaches English at Dalhousie University in Kjipuktuk, Mi’kma’ki (Halifax).