Shaun Hunter’s book Calgary Through the Eyes of Writers (Rocky Mountain Books, 2018) offers a literary journey around Calgary, from its frontier beginnings to today’s contemporary city. Her digital literary map of Calgary marks over 500 sites in the city’s storied landscape. Her latest map City of Romance: The Literary World of 1920s Calgary uncovers one of the city’s many hidden histories for the University of Calgary’s Calgary Atlas Project. Shaun also explores local literary history at Read Alberta.

In 2020, Shaun served as Historian in Residence at the Calgary Public Library, and co-curated “Storied City: Early Calgary through the Eyes of Writers” at the city’s historic Lougheed House.

Shaun’s blog Writing the City explores Calgary as writers have depicted it. Her annotated Calgary reading list appears in CBC's Calgary at a Crossroads series. As a member of Project Bookmark Canada’s Calgary Reading Circle, Shaun helped add Rosemary Griebel’s East Village poem to this national literary trail.

Shaun’s personal essays have appeared in anthologies, literary magazines and The Globe and Mail. Her essay “Skin Deep” was a finalist in the 2013 Alberta Literary Awards for the James H. Gray Award for Short Nonfiction. She is also the author of five biographies for young readers including books on celebrated women writers, artists and scientists, African-American Olympians and Canadian entrepreneurs.

If your group is interested in a presentation on Calgary’s literature, please contact Shaun via her contact page.