Reader and Writer
Noticing the Small Things
CAROLYNE MONTGOMERY is an emerging writer recently retired from a career in medicine. After thirty-odd years as an academic pediatric anesthesiologist in a teaching hospital, Carolyne is turning her hand to creative writing in both the fiction and non-fiction realms. She is a graduate of the 2017 Writer’s Studio Certificate Course in Creative Non-Fiction from Simon Fraser University.
She hopes that her other roles as daughter, sister, wife, mother, divorcee, grandmother, friend and partner will also inform works of provocative fiction and non-fiction. She has been a teacher and is a life-long learner. She tries not to be impatient, to be reliable and always to value truth.
The small and ignored things interest her. She likes to discover new ways of thinking about the details of ordinary things, the things we all experience and the stuff we take for granted. She is drawn to how we adapt to loss and adversity. Suffering and adversity motivate her characters. She likes a good story and is not that fussed about a happy ending. She hopes she has the courage to have and to learn from some spectacular failures as she explores a writing life.
Her travels and work in the developing world inform her writing and often make it harder to make sense of the North American society that she lives in. She appreciates the natural environment and enjoys the outdoors in British Columbia by biking, skiing, hiking and swimming in the sea and lakes.
She lives part-time in Comox on Vancouver Island and also is a part-time resident of Denman Island. A regular summer activity is to ensure that the sun will set correctly by taking the watch from the west-facing deck.