Bio
Zena Sharman, PhD is writer, consultant and LGBTQ+ health advocate. She is the editor of several anthologies, including The Care We Dream Of: Liberatory and Transformative Approaches to LGBTQ+ Health and the Lambda Literary award-winning The Remedy: Queer and Trans Voices on Health and Health Care (both Arsenal Pulp Press). Her forthcoming memoir-in-essays, Staying Power: On Queerness, Inheritances, and the Families We Choose, will be published in October 2025. A seasoned leader, facilitator, and strategist, Zena has fifteen years’ experience working in leadership roles at national and provincial health research organizations in Canada. She is also a death doula and hospice volunteer.