Bio:
Robin Stevenson is the award winning author of more than thirty books of fiction and non-fiction for kids and teens, including PRIDE PUPPY, WHEN YOU GET THE CHANCE, and MY BODY, MY CHOICE: THE FIGHT FOR ABORTION RIGHTS. Her newest titles are QUEER HISTORY A-Z: 100 YEARS OF ACTIVISM (2024) and A HUG ON THE WIND (2025). She has also written six titles in the KID LEGENDS series, the latest of which is KID OLYMPIANS: WINTER (2025).
Her books have won the Silver Birch Award, the Sheila A. Egoff award and a Stonewall Honor, and been finalists for the Governor General’s Literary Awards, the Lambda Literary Awards, and many reader’s choice awards. Robin was the Book and Periodical Council of Canada’s Champion of Free Expression for 2022. In 2023, she was awarded the Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence.
Robin was born in the UK and grew up mostly in Ontario. She worked for ten ten years as a social worker and crisis counsellor, and now writes full time. She lives on the west coast of Canada with her family.
Please contact Robin through her publisher’s email: orca@orcabook.com.
You can also find her on Instagram and on Bluesky @robinstevenson.bsky.social
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