Sarah B. Hood has served as editor of three national Canadian magazines about the performing arts and is a former president of the Canadian Theatre Critics Association. She has been shortlisted for both the National Magazine Awards and the Kenneth R. Wilson Awards for business writing and has won awards from the Canada Council and the Ontario Arts Council.
Sarah has also published hundreds of magazine articles in dozens of periodicals, including Movie Entertainment, Style, Enroute, Canadian Living, Spacing, Canadian Gardening, Toronto Life, Canadian Business and Bicycling. Follow her writing in The National Post, to which she contributes the column "Clerk" and other work, and in Tandem magazine, where she writes about Toronto theatre weekly.
She lectures on writing, arts and culture in the Centre for Arts and Design at Toronto's George Brown College, where she co-ordinates the publication of a student fashion magazine called Oh, George!, among other duties.
Books
- The Edible City: Toronto’s Food from Farm to Fork (contributor), Coach House Press, Toronto, scheduled for Fall 2009.
- GreenTOpia: Towards a Sustainable Toronto (contributor), Coach House Press, 2007.
- Berlitz Guide: Toronto (contributor), Apa Publications, Singapore, 2007.
- The State of the Arts: Living With Culture in Toronto (contributor), Coach House Press, 2006.
- Insight City Guide: Toronto (contributor), Insight Guides, London, 2006.
- Toronto: The Unknown City (with Howard Akler), Arsenal Pulp Press, Vancouver, 2003.
- Practical Pedalling: A companion for everyday cycling in Toronto, Detour Publications, Toronto, 1998.
- Contemporary Issues in Canadian Drama (contributor), ed. Per Brask, Blizzard Publishing, Winnipeg, 1995.
Websites
- Cadmus Communications: Professional site
- Linguanerd: Thoughts of a curious but irascible Canadian editor on the vocabulary, spelling, grammar, morphology, syntax, usage and punctuation of English and other languages in the Third Millennium.
- Toronto Tasting Notes: About Toronto food from furrow to fork: food, wine and beer tastings; cooking classes; food festivals; local, sustainable, organic and artisanal ingredients; street eats; amazing chefs; great restaurants and unforgettable dining.
- Theatre Theatre Calendar
- Unknown Toronto: Sarah's journal of secret Toronto facts and mysteries: TTC lore, hidden spaces, history, art, urban wildlife, film shoots and great Toronto food, clubs, bars, galleries, museums and shopping. An online extension to Toronto, The Unknown City.