Maggie de Vries
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Maggie de Vries
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Maggie de Vries August 13, 1961 Ontario, Canada |
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| Occupation | Author, children's writer, speaker, teacher |
| Awards | Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature Prize |
| Website | maggiedevries.com |
Maggie de Vries, born in 1961 in Ontario, Canada (but growing up in Vancouver, Canada) is a writer for children, teens and adults and creative writing instructor. Her 2010 book, Hunger Journeys and her 2015 book Rabbit Ears both won the Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize.
Missing Sarah is de Vries's best known book; a memoir of her missing adopted sister Sarah de Vries. Sarah was born on May 12, 1969, and the de Vries family adopted her in April 1970. She disappeared from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside in April 1998. Her DNA was found on serial killer Robert Pickton's property in August, 2002. In this book, Maggie remembers her sister’s life through Sarah's journal entries and poems and tells the story of her own search for her sister.
From 2000 to 2007, Maggie de Vries was children's book editor at Orca Book Publishers in Victoria, British Columbia. During that time, she served on the board of PACE Society (Prostitution Alternatives Counseling and Education) and coordinated a book club for inner-city women. In the fall of 2005, she was the first Writer-in-Residence at the Vancouver Public Library and in the fall of 2012 she was the first Writer-in-Residence at the University of Northern British Columbia in Prince George, British Columbia.
Maggie de Vries has received awards or honours for most of her works.
In 2015, Rabbit Ears won the Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize.
In 2012, Somebody's Girl was a Diamond Willow Award nominee.
In 2011, Hunger Journeys won the Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize.
In 2007, Tale of a Great White Fish: A Sturgeon Story won the Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature Prize , won the 2006 ASPCA Henry Bergh Children’s Book Award and was a Silver Birch Express Honour Book.
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