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If someone had told me I would grow up to be an writer when I was young,
I wouldn’t have believed it. My parents were German immigrants so
English started off as my second language and even though I loved
writing from the time I wrote my first composition in grade four, I
thought it was something only dead British or American people did with
success. So when I grew up (in Montreal, Quebec), I worked as a clerk in
cash management for a large paper company while earning my Bachelor of
Arts from Concordia University at night.
Leaving the finance world to have three children forced me to slow down, reflect and write again something I had not had time to do since school. I tried my hand at adult short stories, actually had some household hints published in magazines and then went on to freelance articles for the local paper when we moved to Burlington, Ontario. A friend of mine, Gisela Sherman, now a published author too, convinced me to take a children's writing course given by Paul Kropp at Sheridan College. I loved his books and in his course wrote wrote my first novel Blueberries and Whipped Cream as the class project. After nine books, I returned to Sheridan College this time to teach Creative writing. Since then I travel across Canada to visit classrooms and libraries and while I’ve had to give up teaching at Sheridan, I love giving workshops to my young readers. (teachers too!) |
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