As a writer and painter, Sabrina Pinksen is interested in storytelling. She returns always to the stories that shaped her while growing up in a small outport on the north central coast of Newfoundland. As a rural artist, an important part of her practice is bringing art into rural, often overlooked spaces in hopes of building a future where every region of the province has a thriving arts community.

 

Sabrina’s visual art has exhibited in Toronto, South Korea, Vietnam, and Australia and her written work has been published by PRISM International, Riddle Fence, Newfoundland Quarterly, and Horse Shoe. She is a recipient of the Percy Janes First Novel Award and the NLCU’s Fresh Fish Award. A grantee of the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, her visual work has been collected by the City of St. John’s and The Rooms Provincial Art Bank. She holds a Creative Writing MFA from the University of Guelph.