Marie Sadro arrived to Canada from continental Europe in her teens. She received her education in Austria, France, Canada, and graduated at Yale University, USA. She began writing poetry and plays in her teens. Her early poetry appeared in several anthologies and in her book "To Canada With Love." She is also a writer of children's stories, memoirs, short stories, magazine articles, novellas and novels. Her book of autobiographical stories set in Berlin during the war appeared on Amazon under the title "Erika: Stories." Marie Sadro made her home in North Vancouver, British Columbia, where she