Susan Juby
| Susan Juby | |
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| Born |
March 30, 1969 Ponoka, Alberta |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Genre | Young-adult |
| Notable works | Alice, I Think, Republic of Dirt |
| Spouse | James Juby |
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Susan Juby (born March 30, 1969) is a Canadian writer of young adult literature. She is currently residing in Nanaimo, British Columbia, where she is a professor of creative writing at Vancouver Island University.
Juby is most known for her first series that started with Alice, I Think (2000), which was adapted into the television series Alice, I Think by The Comedy Network.
Juby was born in Ponoka, Alberta, and later moved to Smithers, British Columbia at the age of six.
Juby initially attended fashion design school, but dropped out after several months. She subsequently started a degree in English literature at the University of Toronto, transferring to the University of British Columbia after two years. After graduating she became an editor at a book publishing company called Hartley and Marks.
She began her first book as a journal which she wrote on the bus on the way to work and at a local coffee shop. After struggling to find a publisher the young adult publisher Thistledown published her first book Alice, I Think in 2000.
She then completed a master’s program in publishing at Simon Fraser University in 2001. After that publication she got noticed by HarperCollins which in turn offered her a contract for three books. Her second book Miss Smithers was published in 2004. To complete the trilogy of Alice, I Think all under one publisher, the original book was bought by HarperCollins and at the beginning of the book was changed before being published again. Her third book under this contact was Alice McLeod: Realist at Last, published in 2005.
In 2016, she won the Stephen Leacock Award for her novel Republic of Dirt.
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