Sirena Van Schaik was born in British Columbia, Canada and was the youngest of 4. She has two older brothers and an older sister who spent a great deal of their childhood doing what children do best, tormenting their siblings. At the age of 18, Sirena moved to Ontario, Canada and earned an honours degree in Early Childhood Education.
She worked in the Early Childhood field for seven years before leaving it to pursue her dream of being a writer. A dream that she has experienced some success with in both freelance writing and fiction writing. Sirena has written for many online sites, including baby-shower.com and has also been published in Chicken Soup for the Child’s Soul, Chicken Soup’s What I Learned from the Cat and True Volume 2.
She has been published by Mothering Magazine, Southern Families Magazine, Rochelle Nicole Magazine and the Pet Gazette and you can find her work on www.baby-shower.com and many other online blogs and magazines.
She has ghostwritten several books and has enjoyed writing on a range of topics in a freelance capacity. In addition, she is overjoyed to announce her first publishing contract and is looking toward the future to create many more books.
When she isn’t writing, she is a busy mother of two boys. She still resides in Ontario Canada with her husband and children and a menagerie of household pets. Currently, Sirena has two cats, a dog, a bearded dragon, and a rabbit and her two children that are always trying to sneak in a new mouth to feed.
If you are interested in learning more about Sirena or her writing, please browse through her site or contact her.
“The writer's duty is to keep on writing”
William Styron