Anne Carter was born in Don Mills in 1953. She left Canada at seventeen to work on kibbutzim in Israel, a Jean Vanier home in France, and California. She returned home to complete her B. A., M. Ed., and to learn French. She taught ESL for the Cree School Board in isolated villages in Northern Quebec and French Immersion in Southern Ontario. She currently lives in Toronto where she works as a teacher-librarian (after waking up at 5 am to write for two hours) and occasionally teaches writing at the University of Toronto.

Anne has twice won the Canadian Library Association Best Book of the Year Award, the Jane Addam’s Honor Award for peace, the Vicky Metcalf Award for best short story, The Mr. Christie’s Best Picture Book Award, the Toronto Star Short Story contest, and the Thistledown Press YA short story competition. She has also been a finalist for numerous awards across the country.

Anne Laurel Carter
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