Martine Leavitt

Martine Leavitt is the author of award-winning books for young readers, including Calvin (winner of the Governor General’s Award of Canada), My Book of Life by Angel (finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and winner of the Canadian Library Association Young Adult Book of the Year) and Keturah and Lord Death (finalist for the National Book Award). She is professor emerita of the MFA program in Writing for Children and Young Adults at Vermont College of Fine Arts, where she served as the Katherine Paterson Endowed Chair. Martine lives in High River, Alberta.