Joel A. Sutherland

{{Short description|Canadian author}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2020}}

{{Infobox writer

| name = Joel A. Sutherland

| image = Author Joel A. Sutherland.jpg

| caption=Joel A. Sutherland in Las Vegas following the Bram Stoker Awards, 2009

| imagesize =

| alt = Photo portrait of Joel A. Sutherland

| birth_name = Joel Alexander Sutherland

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1980|12|01}}

| birth_place = Oakville, Ontario, Canada

| occupation = Author & Librarian

| alma_mater = York University (B.F.A.)
Aberystwyth University (M.L.I.S.)

| period = 2008–present (published)

| genre = Horror

| awards = Silver Birch Award (2016 & 2017), Hackmatack Award (2015 & 2016)

| website = {{URL|joelasutherland.com}}

}}

Joel A. Sutherland (born 1 December 1980) is a Canadian author of thriller, horror and fantasy short stories and novels, anthologies and children's books. His notable works include Frozen Blood and the Haunted Canada series. Sutherland's writing has won the Forest of Reading Silver Birch Award and the Hackmatack Award, and been nominated for the Forest of Reading Red Maple Award, the Bram Stoker Award{{cite web |url=http://www.horror.org/stokerwinnom.htm#2008 |title= Horror Writers Association - Past Stoker Award Nominees & Winners|website=www.horror.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100719141024/http://www.horror.org/stokerwinnom.htm#2006 |archive-date=19 July 2010}} and the Black Quill Award.{{cite web|url=http://www.darkscribemagazine.com/3rd-annual-bqa-nominees/|title=Dark Scribe Magazine - 3rd Annual - Nominees|website=www.darkscribemagazine.com|accessdate=24 November 2017|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171114093252/http://www.darkscribemagazine.com/3rd-annual-bqa-nominees/|archivedate=14 November 2017}} He lives in Courtice, Ontario.

Sutherland was born in Oakville, Ontario. He graduated with a BFA in Film & Video Production studies from York University, Toronto, in 2003 and obtained a Master of Library and Information Science degree from Aberystwyth University, Wales, in 2012. He is the Children's & Youth Services Librarian for the Georgina Public Libraries. He has also worked at the Ajax Public Library, in a hockey stick factory, at a pizza restaurant, in a bar, at a men's suit retailer and at a bookstore. He was also a member of the Governor General's Foot Guards during the summer of 2000.{{cite web|url=http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/s/joel-a-sutherland/|title=Joel A Sutherland|website=www.fantasticfiction.co.uk|accessdate=24 November 2017|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303233004/http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/s/joel-a-sutherland/|archivedate=3 March 2016}}

His first published story was "Something Fishy This Way Comes" in The Undead: Skin & Bones (Permuted Press). Frozen Blood has been said to have been inspired by the

Great Ice Storm of 1998.{{cite web|url=http://www.darkscribemagazine.com/drawing-first-blood/the-chronicles-of-joel-sutherland-act-one-the-ice-storm-come.html|title=Dark Scribe Magazine - Drawing First Blood - The Chronicles of Joel Sutherland, Act One: The Ice Storm Cometh|website=www.darkscribemagazine.com|accessdate=24 November 2017|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120303052536/http://www.darkscribemagazine.com/drawing-first-blood/the-chronicles-of-joel-sutherland-act-one-the-ice-storm-come.html|archivedate=3 March 2012}}

In October 2010, it was announced that Sutherland had been selected as a contestant for the first season of Wipeout Canada, which aired on TVtropolis in the Spring of 2011.{{cite web|url=http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/October2010/04/c7641.html|title=WIPEOUT CANADA CONTESTANTS REVEALED!|website=www.newswire.ca|accessdate=24 November 2017|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110221114926/http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/October2010/04/c7641.html|archivedate=21 February 2011}}{{cite web|url=http://durhamregion.com/article/166311|title=Durham Region Breaking News - Durham Region's Online Newspaper - DurhamRegion.com|website=DurhamRegion.com|accessdate=24 November 2017|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120729111953/http://www.durhamregion.com/article/166311|archivedate=29 July 2012}} He made it to the third round on the Beauties vs. Geeks episode.