She attended Humber School for Writers, studying under authors Nino Ricci and Anne Michaels.

Szado's forthcoming historical novel, Studio Saint-Ex imagines the famous flyer and writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry during his days in New York in World War II as he is writing his masterpiece The Little Prince.

The story is told through the remembrances of two women, his wife Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry and the fictional young fashion designer Mignonne Lachapelle, who comes from Montreal to make her name in the early days of American haute couture.

The book will be published in April 2013 by Alfred A. Knopf and Penguin Canada and will soon be available in translation in Italy, Poland and Russia.

Her short story Camping at Wal-Mart appeared in the anthology All Sleek and Skimming (Orca Books, 2006, ed.