ArticlesSarah Klassen

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  Fiction

  Complicated desire for family foregrounds tale set in early 1900s Mennonite town

  The creative fodder for Winnipeg author Sarah Klassen’s second novel, The Russian Daughter, came from a story told by her mother about a childless couple who made two attempts at adoption, both ending sadly.

  By Bev Sandell Greenberg     Issue 82, Spring/Summer 2023

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  Poetry

  Collection comes together through staying with poems, letting themes reveal themselves

  For Manitoba poet Sarah Klassen, writing poems is an exercise in waiting. The process she went through for her newest collection of poetry, The Tree of Life, was no different.

  By Kyla Neufeld