Valerie Sherrard

Valerie Sherrard is the author of more than thirty books for children and teens, including the multi-award-nominated Birdspell and the novel-in-verse Standing on Neptune. Her work has won or been shortlisted for the TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award, the Governor General’s Literary Award for Young People’s Literature, the Geoffrey Bilson Award, the Ann Connor Brimer Award, the Canadian Library Association’s Book of the Year for Children, and numerous readers’ choice programs including the Forest of Reading, the Manitoba Young Readers’ Choice Awards, the Red Cedar Book Award, the Rocky Mountain Book Awards, the Willow Awards, and the Hackmatack Children’s Choice Book Award. The New Brunswick Lieutenant Governor’s Awards for High Achievement in the Arts named Valerie the 2024 Literary Arts Laureate. Born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, she now lives in Miramichi, New Brunswick.