Vicki Grant has been called “a superb storyteller” (The Canadian Children’s Book Centre) and “one of the funniest writersworking today” (The Vancouver Sun). She began her career as an advertising copywriter, moved on to writing scripts for Theodore Tugboat, Big Comfy Couch and her own Gemini-winning series Scoop & Doozie before graduating to YA fiction.

Her novels have won The Red Maple, The Arthur Ellis Award and CBC’s Young Canada Reads as well as been shortlisted for The Edgar, CLA Children’s Book of the Year and numerous Forest of Reading awards. Her YA romcom 36 Questions That Changed My Mind About You, has been translated into 17 languages and was optioned for film. Her latest middle grade novel, A Green Velvet Secret, is about love, grief and fabulous vintage clothes. Called a ‘winning novel’ by Publishers’ Weekly, it was recently named a Best Book for Kids by The Canadian Children’s Book Centre.

Vicki’s currently working Death by Whoopee Cushion, a funny middle-grade mystery about science, tasteless jokes and murder.