Daniel Sarah Karasik is a writer, editor, facilitator, and strategist.
They are lead strategist at Evenings & Weekends Consulting, a consultancy that works with non-profits, charities, unions, and other organizations to advance good social change. They also serve as managing editor of Midnight Sun – a magazine of left, labour, and social movement strategy – and are a co-founder of the Toronto-based political network Artists for Climate & Migrant Justice and Indigenous Sovereignty. Highlights of their social movement and other political work include rallying the public for wage equity through the dynamic Fight For $15 and Fairness campaign, facilitating a restorative justice-based rehabilitation program for former prisoners, helping to guide writing workshops among prisoners in Chicago’s Cook County Jail, co-organizing mass mobilizations against transphobia in Toronto, and spearheading the Suppress The Virus Now Coalition in Ontario to demand a just, equitable public health strategy during the early waves of the COVID-19 pandemic.
They are the author of seven published books: most recently, their debut novel Disobedience (Book*hug Press); the poetry collections Plenitude (Book*hug Press) and Hungry (Cormorant Books); the play collection The Crossing Guard & In Full Light (Playwrights Canada Press); the individually published plays The Remarkable Flight of Marnie McPhee (Playwrights Canada Press) and Little Death (Book*hug Press); and the short story collection Faithful and Other Stories (Guernica Editions).
Their plays have been produced across Canada, in the US, and in translation in Germany, and nominated for the Dora Mavor Moore Award. A graduate of the Young Writers Programme at the Royal Court Theatre in London, UK, and a former playwright-in-residence at Toronto’s Tarragon Theatre, they have been recognized with the Toronto Arts Foundation’s Emerging Artist Award, the CBC Fiction Prize, and the Canadian Jewish Playwriting Award, among other honours. Their short fiction has been published in The Malahat Review, The North American Review, and Air Canada’s EnRoute Magazine, among other publications, and their political journalism has appeared frequently in Briarpatch Magazine.
They live in Toronto.
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