Marilyn Anne Campbell
Canadian writer of stage plays, stories, non-fiction, and what-have-you.
Hello and welcome! I'm a writer (and reader and photographer and nature nerd and a bunch of other things) in Ontario, Canada. I write short plays, short fiction, creative non-fiction, poems, and comics. Over the years I've written in many different genres and on many different topics, but most of my recent work focuses on animals and nature.
I'm especially interested in stories that help people recognize animals as individuals, including empathizing with them, acting compassionately toward them, and treating them as equals.
Featured Writing
"The Night Shift" is a short comic exploring an opossum's perspective of the city in the 2024 TO Comix anthology The City We Chose. Read it online now.
Dragons of the Prime: Poems about Dinosaurs is now available from The Emma Press (UK). This children's anthology includes my poems "Fowl Dreams" and "The End".
It's a classic Western showdown between urban wildlife and a young woman in a hurry. Read the short comic "The Goosefighter" in Toronto Comics Vol. 5: Osgoode as Gold.
Animal Spotlight
Among the already frequently overlooked category of urban wildlife in Ontario, the Virginia Opossum (Didelphis virginiana) tends to get even less attention than most (I'm looking at you, raccoons who are on half of the Toronto-branded merchandise out there). Here's a little love for Canada's only marsupial:
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Read "Mouse and Minnow: Poems for Opossums" on Medium
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Read the short comic "The Night Shift" online as part of the TO Comix anthology The City We Chose.
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