de Vries, Maggie

Maggie De Vries s latest novel, Hunger Journeys, won the Sheila A. Egoff Children s Literature Prize and was called historical fiction at its best by CM Magazine. She has written eight other works for young readers, as well as one book for adults, Missing Sarah. A former children s book editor and writer-in-residence for the Vancouver Public Library, she now focuses on teaching creative writing at the University of British Columbia and on her own writing.