Ramona Baillie is a Montreal-born writer with a sharp eye for life’s grittier edges. Raised in Pointe-Aux-Trembles—once one of Montreal’s roughest neighbourhoods—her early years were marked by danger, resilience, and raw human complexity. By age nine, she’d faced gang threats, daily fights, and even an attempted abduction. Her first bike was stolen the day after she got it.
Those early experiences honed her storytelling instincts. Ramona writes from a place of honesty, often exploring the messy, off-kilter corners of life. Her work makes space for redemption, but it never strays far from reality.
As a playwright, screenwriter, and producer, her plays have been staged across Canada, and her films have won awards internationally. She spent time in South Beach’s vibrant arts scene before settling in Toronto with her husband.
Her debut novel, The Darkest Green, is as raw and grounded as the life that shaped it—a haunting, human story of what happens when long-buried truths rise to the surface.
