Writing Teen and YA Novels with Gail Anderson-Dargatz and Tanya Lloyd Kyi, moderated by Lindsay Wong

Gail Anderson-Dargatz’s international bestsellers, The Cure for Death by Lightning and A Recipe for Bees were both finalists for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. A Recipe for Bees was also nominated for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. The Spawning Grounds was nominated for the Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic, the Ontario Library Association Evergreen Award, and was short-listed for the Canadian Authors Association Literary Award for fiction. Her upcoming novel, The Almost Wife, is a thriller.
Gail also writes hi-lo books for the educational market. Her book, Iggy’s World, was a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection and shortlisted for the Chocolate Lily Book Awards. The Ride Home was short-listed for a BC and Yukon Book Prize, the Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize. Gail taught in the UBC CW MFA optional-residency program for nearly a decade. She now offers developmental edits and mentors writers in on her online teaching forums. For more, check out her website: gailanderson-dargatz.ca. Or follow her on Twitter @AndersonDargatz

Tanya Lloyd Kyi is the award-winning author of more than 25 books for children and young adults, including Me and Banksy, Mya’s Strategy to Save the World, and This Is Your Brain on Stereotypes. She writes about science, social issues, and history, or a mix of the three. Tanya lives in Vancouver with her husband and two teenaged children. She’s a huge fan of street art, but hasn’t launched her graffiti career…yet.