Kristin Butcher

Biography:

Kristin Butcher is a Canadian writer and reviewer of young adult and juvenile fiction. Her first novel The Runaways was published in 1997 and went on to be a regional Silver Birch Award winner. Since then she has published 19 other books including two biographies for primary readers and 6 titles in the successful Soundings and Currents series from Orca Books of which Zee’s Way won the 2006 Chocolate Lily Award. She has twice toured for the TD Canadian Children's Book Week.