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Short bio

Sheila McLeod Arnopoulos is a Montreal author and former investigative journalist. She is the author of five books, most recently Out of Bounds, and shared a Governor General’s Literary Award. She taught journalism at Concordia University for many years.

Long bio

Sheila McLeod Arnopoulos is the author of a novel and three non-fiction books, and of the linked story collection Out of Bounds. Her book Saris on Scooters: How Microcredit Is Changing Village India was a finalist for the National Business Book Award. She has won a Governor General’s Literary Award and several journalism prizes for exposés about marginalized women and minorities.

While an investigative journalist for the Montreal Star, she worked underground in several Montreal sweatshops and wrote about the exploitation of immigrant women. She has reported from France, Greece, Tunisia, India, Switzerland and China. For many years, she taught journalism at Concordia University.