Anne Carter

Anne Laurel Carter was born in Toronto in 1953 and left at seventeen to work on kibbutzim in Israel, a Jean Vanier home in France and in California. She earned a master’s of education specializing in second language acquisition and taught English as a Second Language in Toronto and in isolated Cree villages of northern Quebec, as well as French immersion in southern Ontario.

Carter currently resides in Toronto and Nova Scotia, writing, teaching and mentoring other writers. Her writing includes The Shepherd's Granddaughter and Under a Prairie Sky and has twice earned the Canadian Library Association's Best Book of the Year Award for Children, a prestigious Jane Addam’s Honor Award for peace, the Mr. Christie’s Best Picture Book Award and numerous nominations for children’s reading programs across the country.