Sara Truuvert
Hello! I’m Sara, a Canadian writer of Japanese-Estonian descent. I live in Ontario.
My short fiction and poetry have appeared in publications like Ploughshares, the Chicago Quarterly Review, Witness, PRISM international, and the Literary Review of Canada.
My debut picture book, Mira and Baku, was named a 2023 Book of the Year in Quill & Quire. It’s illustrated by Michelle Theodore and published by Annick Press.
I’m currently working on a novel. I acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts. I’d also like to acknowledge funding support from the Ontario Arts Council and the Government of Ontario for their support.
Short Fiction
Flood — Ploughshares
We Are the Clownfish! — Chicago Quarterly Review
Pretty Soon You Start to Stink — Witness Magazine
I Discover the Weight of my Tongue — Broken Pencil Magazine
Fish Fry — Five on the Fifth
Poetry
Franny Dies — filling Station
You Grew an Orange — The Fiddlehead (selected for inclusion in Best Canadian Poetry 2025)
Return (an act of mercy by the postal service) — Contemporary Verse 2
Your portrait, its title — Contemporary Verse 2
Hand-Sliced Mango: $7.99 — The Antigonish Review
Real Magic — Room Magazine
Will My Iguana Love Me? — Orbis (Orbis Readers’ Award, joint 3rd place)
Pop’s Stupendous Grilled Cheese — Orbis
In January — Raceme Magazine
Paper Alien, 1942 — Parentheses Journal
The New Combini — The Ex-Puritan
The Oldest Story in Japan, as told by my Grandmother — Arc Poetry Magazine
The Bamboo Cutter’s Daughter — PRISM international
Ojisan and the Tumbling Rice Ball — Bat City Review
February — The Literary Review of Canada
Articles
Scientific visualization (it’s cool, I promise)
Humour articles for Stranded (I was shortlisted for a John H. McDonald Journalism Award, which means I “didn’t win”)
Screenwriting
Late Night — post-production with Labyrinth Media
How I learned everything I know
Photo credit: Annie Truuvert