ABOUT

I’m Sonja Boon (she/her), a mixed-race writer, researcher, flutist, teacher, and stitcher of stories based in Kjipuktuk (Halifax), Canada.

photo: Ritche Perez

The unofficial bio: I love the rhythm, feel and sound of words in my mouth, playing with words (and worlds!), laughing, the colour red (and purple and yellow and blue and…), improv quilting, the smell and intimacy of archival materials in my hands, walking along Atlantic shores, chocolate, the Atlantic wind, flute playing, shortbread, old houses, books that sweep me into other worlds, sunshine on waves, the feel of fabric under my fingers, rice pudding, travelling, feminist theory, a cozy duvet on a cold night, toast with honey and butter, big earrings, old photographs, found poetry, icebergs, extra old Gouda cheese, family histories, and the whoosh of air as it moves from my body and through my flute. I spend my days writing, stitching, reading, fluting, teaching, walking, and dreaming along the shores of Nova Scotia.

photo: Ritche Perez.

The official bio: Sonja Boon is an award-winning writer, researcher, teacher, flutist, and stitcher of stories. The author, co-author, or co-editor of seven books, she has published creative non-fiction and poetry in a range of literary magazines, including Riddle Fence, ROOM, The Ethnic Aisle, GEIST, and Pinhole Poetry. As a flutist, Sonja has performed around the globe for audiences both large and small, from a command performance for the Crown Prince of Japan and patients in a palliative care ward, to appearances with the Toronto Symphony in Roy Thomson Hall, and as a soloist with the Portland Baroque Orchestra.

Sonja has over 30 years of teaching experience in university and community-based classrooms. For fifteen years, she was professor of gender studies at Memorial University, and she has also taught at the University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, and Bangor University (Wales). In addition to this, she has offered workshops and webinars for the American Library Association, Creative Non-Fiction Collective Society, Writers Federation of Nova Scotia, and Early Music Vancouver, among others. Sonja is currently a mentor in the MFA in Creative Nonfiction program at the University of King’s College, Halifax.


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Cover Photo by Rich Blenkinsopp at Middle Cove Beach, Newfoundland and Labrador.

© Sonja Boon, 2026.