Sheilah Madonna Mortel Salvador was born and raised in the Philippines but currently lives in Tkronto, colonially known as Toronto. She is an adult educator who utilizes and facilitates storytelling through spoken word, creative writing, photography and crocheting as acts of resistance, healing, self love and cultural pride. She is currently working on her first novel Daisies Won't Tell, which interrogates and pays tribute to the Pilipino experiences of survival and triumph against historical and immigration trauma.

In 2019, her poems were shortlisted at the Eden Mills Poetry Contest, and her poetry and writing has been featured in Hamtholgy, the Ham Sandwich Literature, Minerva Literary Journal, Feel Ways- A Scarborough Anthology, and Retreating to Retreat, a book based on the award winning play, Encounters at the Edge of the Woods, of which she was one of the performers.