Pinery Pointe Press is an Imprint, that is a sub-publication with different foci but shared larger perspectives, of Global Localities. PPP publishes Canadian authored (including those holding a green card, or even just living for a long period in Canada--including long-term commercial fishing off the coast of Newfoundland, however those waters might be declaared Canadian or not). Whehter fiction or non-fiction, all such narratives should be aimed at Canadian middle graders and young adults (that is written for for children ages 8-17). As with the objective of Global Localities, Pineery Pinery Point Press also embraces some aspect of both a Canadian and a global perspective, even if the larger vision takes the form of a kind of awakening to such an awareness as a result of the narrative learning experience . Canada is not an island. It is a country with many different Provices that share features, not just the label "Canada,, including a large border with the United States. Also of shared intertests extending to the global are features across Provinces that expose the makeup of human nature, and facets of both environmental and cultural elements.
Pinery Pointe, for instance, is an actual physical site in northern Ontario on Georgian Bay, which is part of Lake Huron, one of the five Great Lakes, four of which share the border between Canada and the United States. Furthermore, these lakes that share the waterways of Canada and the US flow into the large Saint Lawrence River, which further flows into the Atlantic Ocian. Through waterways alone, the very local site of Pinery Pointe participates in a flow between Canadian and American identities, culture, economics, and politics, and those far beyond. Through the Atlantic Ocean, they reach Europe and its closely connected countries by the Atlantic Ocean that extend to the North, South, and East of Europe and far away lands. In other words, to the world.
Much of Pinery Pointe locally is a protected Provincial Park, though nearby, by the same name, is also the site of many cottages on its sandy beaches, where mainly Ontario and some US families come to summer vacation. Heading North for a summer retreat on one of the shores of Georgian Bay or on a lake in Muskoka is a treasured habit practiced by Canadians. Such Northern retreats are commonly thought of as an escape from Toronto's city heat and humidity. The areas north are called Cottage Country.
Editor-in-Chief
Gail Sweeney
Gail was born and raised in a large family in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. After receiving a BA and then a MA from the prestigious University of Toronto, she becam a Child Psychologist. She first practiced near her new hometown, Barrie (North of Toronto), in many public schools in the Barrie School District.Then, for over a decade, she was the Child Psychologist at the renowned private school, Bishop Strong, in Toronto, which teahes the full range of grades from K through 12.
In addition to being a committed psychologist at Bishop Strong, Gail is in her free time baking. She is the author of the beautifully illustrated Let's Bake: Over 100 Dessert Recipes for Gifting & Giving (Penguin Random House). Gifting and Giving is at the heart of Gail's baking. philosophy. She believes individuals thrive and come together into a community of strong bonds in giving and recieiving baked goods, and such gifting pleasure spreads far beyond the oven or community, as her book demonstrates.
Gail is also a lover of the outdoors and a kayaker enthusiast, daily kayaking on Barrie Lake, where she lives with her husband and is close to her three children. Naturally, raising them bolstered her psychological knowledge of children in their moment and as they changed in growing.
Associate Editor
Bernadette Andrea
Bernadette represents a voice from western Canada, where she was born and raised,
attending the University of Calgary, Alberta, for her B.A (Honours) and MA. In 2006, she was named one of the Top 40 Alumni for the 40th Anniversary Celebration at the University of Calgary. She travelled south and across the border for her M.A. and PH.D at Cornell University, returning to Canada for a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of British Columbia. She is currently a full professor of early modern literary and cultural studies in the Department of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. But she has widespread expertise, which explains her affiliation at UCSB with the faculty in the Center for Middle East Studies, the Comparative Literature Program, and the Department of Feminist Studies. In addition, she has studied French, Italian, Latin, Spanish, and Turkish at the university level. Her latest book is The Lives of Girls and Women from the Islamic World in Early Modern British Literature and Culture (University of Toronto Press, 2017), which will be released in paperback in 2026. She has the prestigious honor of being appointed the President of the Shakespeare Association of America (2022-2023).
Assistant Editor
Andrew Griffin
Born and growing up in Toronto, Ontario, Andrew is a true blue Canadian. He reluctantly left Toronto to receive a BA from the highly respected Queen's University, Kingston, and then a PhD from McMaster University, both in Ontario. He married in Toronto and began raising a family there, but to advance his career, he neccessarily acceped a job in the English Department at the prestigious University of California, Santa Barbara, California. There he is a popular Associate Professor of English. His most recent book, Untimely Deaths in Renaissance Drama, was published in 2019 by the University of Toronto Press (reviews here and here), and he’s published many articles on a variety of early modern subjects, though he is most interested in history, culture and the conept of "timeliness." Every chance he gets, he flies from Santa Barbara to be with his medical wife and two lovely children who still live in Toronto with her parents. He also grabs every opportunity he can to take his children North in Ontario to Cottage Country, where they enjoy camping by one of the many northern lakes. Andrew knows Ontario's cities, countryside, waterways, and wildlife. He's lived in and seen them all.