Carrie Mac

Carrie Mac is an award-winning Canadian author of more than a dozen novels for Young Adults. Her first novel, The Beckoners (2004), won the Arthur Ellis YA Award, is a CLA Honour book, and is being adapted for film.

Mac was born in Kamloops, British Columbia. She dropped out of high school in Grade eleven, completing her secondary education by correspondence. She trained as a paramedic at the Justice Institute of British Columbia.

Before becoming a full-time writer, Mac worked at various times as a sign language interpreter, a bookstore clerk, and a child and youth advocate in a transition house.

She also writes literary short fiction and creative non-fiction. Some of her accolades include a CBC Creative Nonfiction Prize, the Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize, the Arthur Ellis Award, and various other awards and recognitions.

"The world is built on stories. War is built on stories. Peace is built on stories. Love and loss, joy and fear, and sadness are all built on stories. I want to hear all the stories, and read all the books, and meet all the storytellers and see all the places, but that would take a thousand lifetimes, so I write in my little corner, telling the stories within reach," says Mac.

Her latest work is the literary novel, Last Winter, due out from Random House Canada in 2023.

Carrie Mac is a queer mama. She lives in East Vancouver with her two children.

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