Kristin Butcher

Kristin Butcher is a Canadian writer and reviewer of young adult and juvenile fiction. She was born in Winnipeg, but moved to Victoria, BC, at the age of 5. Her first novel, The Runaways, was published in 1997 and went on to be a regional Silver Birch Award winner. Since then she has published 25 other books, including two biographies for primary readers and 10 titles in the successful Soundings and Currents series from Orca Books, of which Zee’s Way and Zack & Zoe Bully and the Beagle won the 2006 and 2011 Chocolate Lily Awards, respectively. She has twice toured for the Canadian Children's Book Week and given book talks at libraries and schools. Butcher is also an artist and illustrator. Butcher started as a teacher in Victoria and two years previous to that, she had met her husband Rob Butcher.