Marie Prins

In one way or another, my life has been about books. As a child, I devoured them, at university I studied them earning a BA in English literature, as a young adult I sold them in bookstores, and now while I write them, I also teach children to read them in my private remedial reading practice in Eastern Ontario, Canada.

"The Girl From the Attic" (Common Deer Press 2020) won First (Family) and Second Place (Mid-grade fiction) 2021 Purple Dragonfly Awards from StoryMonsters, Inc. It was also chosen for GettLitNow's Summer Reading Olympiad 2021. And was a finalist in the Crystal Kite Awards for SCBWI Canada East 2020.

My picture book "Who's Walking Dawg?" (Red Deer Press 2024) was inspired by my own pooch Chester who sometimes followed his nose out of our yard.