Meghan Marentette

Meghan Marentette has always loved tiny things. Nicknamed "Meghan Mouse" as a child, she spent hours collecting bits and pieces to build miniature worlds for her toys. As an adult she worked in the film industry, making costumes for the tiny puppets of stop-motion animation TV series, but eventually longed to create tiny worlds of her own again.

She began by conceiving a miniature world for mice in her debut novel, The Stowaways (finalist for the Canadian Library Association's Book of the Year for Children Award, the Ann Connor Brimer award, and the Monica Hughes Science Fiction and Fantasy Award), then decided to delve further into her passion by creating a miniature world in three dimensions.

Meghan is now working on a series of photo-illustrated picture books, starring two wire-framed plush animals named Rumie and Uncle Hawthorne. Set on an idyllic forest stream and on interior sets of their home inside a hollow tree, Rumie Goes Rafting is the first book in the series (2024).