Marsha Skrypuch is the author of many books for children and young
adults. She has the distinction of having written more novels about the
Armenian genocide than any other author in the English speaking world.
She was also the first person to write a picture book set during the
Ukrainian Famine (Holodomor). That book is /Enough/ and it is
illustrated by Michael Martchenko. When /Enough/ came out, she received
hate mail and death threats. In 2008 Victor Yushchenko, President of
Ukraine, bestowed upon Marsha the Order of Princess Olha for her
writings on the Ukrainian Famine. This award is the Ukrainian equivalent
to the Order of Canada.

Many people have asked Marsha why she writes about such serious topics.
"Genocide isn't just killing people," she says. "It is the victors
rewriting history. If we don't step into the shoes of these silenced
people, then their killers win."

Marsha knew nothing about the Armenian genocide until she met the son of
a survivor in the late 1980s. She became obsessed with the Armenian
genocide and the fact that there was so little written on it. Using her
librarian sleuthing skills, she plunged into diaries, interviews and
memoirs of the era. She initially wrote one big fat novel called
/Shadows in the Sand/, but she felt it was a heavy chunk of story so she
broke it into threads and started again. While /Daughter of War/ is a
stand-alone novel, it can also be read as a companion to /The Hunger/
and /Nobody's Child/. She has a fourth novel about Kevork, Marta, and
Mariam in her head.