G. Barton-Sinkia was born in Toronto, Canada. She is a first-generation Canadian from Jamaican and Barbadian parents. She grew up in North York and went to Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. She is a proud graduate of Carleton's School of Journalism with a double major in history. Soon after, she moved to the United States of America and lived in Atlanta and Los Angeles for seventeen years before moving back to Toronto with her family. Her debut novel, By The Next Pause, will be part of three books she is writing for her "Toronto Series". A collection of Canadian stories that features the city of Toronto as its setting.