Mary-ellen lang collura biography
Mary-Ellen Lang Collura was born, raised, and educated in Vancouver....
Martine Leavitt
American novelist
Martine Leavitt (born 1953) is a Canadian American writer of young adult novels and a creative writing instructor.
Biography
Leavitt was born in 1953 in Canada. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree, first class honours, from the University of Calgary and a Master of Fine Arts from Vermont College.[1] She has seven children, twenty-one grandchildren, and lives with her husband in Alberta, Canada.
Martine Leavitt writes novels for young adults, most recently Buffalo Flats.
Mary-Ellen Lang Collura's first two best selling, internationally published novels, WINNERS and SUNNY won multiple awards.
Calvin (2015) won the 2016 Governor General's Award for English-language children's literature. My Book of Life by Angel (2012) was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and winner of the Canadian Library Association Young Adult Book of the Year.
Keturah and Lord Death (2006) was a finalist for the National Book Award.
She teaches creative writing at Vermont College of Fine Arts, a short-residency MFA program, where she serves as the K