people, places, African American heritage
Shauntay Grant is a writer, spoken word performer, broadcast journalist, and musician. She was Halifax's third poet laureate (2009-2010). She is the author of The City Speaks in Drums and Up Home, which won the 2008 Atlantic Book Award for Best Atlantic Published Book and was shortlisted for the 2010 Hackmatack Children's Choice Book Awards. Shauntay lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
