Newest · Fiction · 2023
Out of Bounds
Linked stories of Montreal women at the turning points of their lives, at home and abroad.
“Arnopoulos creates women who have unique and fascinating lives.”Anna Fuerstenberg, Montréal Serai
Author · Journalist
Sheila McLeod Arnopoulos
Undercover in Montreal’s sweatshops. Reporting from India’s villages. Writing fiction about Montreal women.
Author of five books of fiction and non-fiction, from The English Fact in Quebec to Out of Bounds. A former investigative reporter at The Montreal Star, she also taught journalism at Concordia.
Books
All five books →
Non-fiction · 2010
Saris on Scooters
How microcredit is changing village India. Finalist, National Business Book Award.
“Well-documented, eminently readable and uplifting.”Maya Khankhoje, Herizons Magazine
About Sheila
A reporter first
The Montreal Star
As an investigative journalist, she worked underground in Montreal sweatshops and wrote about the exploitation of immigrant women.
Concordia University
For many years she taught journalism. She has reported from France, Greece, Tunisia, India, Switzerland and China.
Awards
Governor General’s Award, National Newspaper Award, Media Club of Canada Award, and several journalism prizes.
From the reporting for Saris on Scooters
A mayor. A seedkeeper. A radio host. A woman who built a factory from neem seeds.
Lakshamamma
Led a village self-help group that took small loans. Now mayor of Cherlapatelguda.
Anjamma
Seedkeeper. Made the desert bloom with microcredit loans for organic farming.
Narsamma
Runs a village radio station covering social and economic change.
Shammamma
Heads a women’s collective that presses neem-seed oil into organic pesticide.
Articles
All articles →Rereading Noel Mostert’s book Supership
In 1974 as a very junior reporter at The Montreal Star, some senior reporters alerted me to a two-part major piece of reporting by Noel Mostert in the New Yorker magazine.
Intensive Care
At a busy bus stop, a young woman with kindly brown eyes stepped forward.
The Ambulance
Denyse put her hand over mine. We were at the crowded deli, waiting for our smoked-meat sandwiches.