Janet Trull lives in the historic village of West Guilford in the Haliburton Highlands. She is the author of two critically acclaimed collections of short fiction, Hot Town (2016) and Something’s Burning (2022) both published by At Bay Press. With small town settings and big world themes, her stories examine the tension between neighbours, sexes, races and generations during times of social and cultural change. Blue Denim Press published her historical novel, End of the Line (2023), an immigration story about the railway’s impact on a small Central Ontario village in 1878. Canadian Saint (Blue Denim Press,2026) explores the long shadow of a shared childhood tragedy.
A graduate of English at McMaster University, Trull focused on literacy throughout her career as an educator. Currently, she is a freelance writer. Her essays, professional writing and short stories have appeared in a wide variety of publications, including the Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, Canadian Living Magazine, Prairie Fire, The New Quarterly, subTerrain Magazine, and Geist.
Janet Trull is the recipient of several awards, including a CBC Canada Writes challenge, a Western Magazine Award nomination, and a Commonwealth Fiction prize.
Terry Fallis, two-time winner of the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour, says, “Janet Trull knows her way around people and communities as well as the issues that hold them together, and sometimes break them apart.”
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