Jillian Grant Shoichet is a writer and editor based on Vancouver Island.

As a survivor of an idyllic childhood in pastoral southwestern British Columbia, where nothing happens unless someone sets things in motion, from an early age Jillian was a fiction instigator. Over time, friends and family members have come to accept they will find reflections of themselves in her stories.

Jillian’s writing has been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize, the Exeter Story Prize, the Fish Short Memoir Prize, the Surrey International Writers’ Conference Storyteller’s Award, the PRISM International Creative Non-fiction Competition, the Writers Union of Canada Short Prose Competition, and the Tilden Canadian Literary Awards (Saturday Night Magazine and CBC Radio). Her work has appeared in the Fish anthology, the Bristol Prize anthology, Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, the Toronto Journal, sub-TERRAIN Magazine, Mystery Magazine and WritersDigest.com. She won first prize in the 2025 Exeter Writers short story competition and third prize in the 2024 Stockholm Writers Festival First 5 Pages Prize.

Jillian holds a doctorate in ancient literacy and oral tradition from the University of Victoria and is the senior policy analyst in the legislative drafting office of the province of British Columbia, all of which reinforces her suspicion that she is less useful than a mechanic or a physician.

A co-owner and co-operator of Shoichet Editorial and a member of the Writers’ Union of Canada and the Federation of BC Writers, Jillian lives in a small house in a large garden with two children and various other animals. She sometimes writes as Eve Grant.