SHELLEY TANAKA is an editor, writer, teacher and translator. She is the author of more than twenty books for children and young adults, including seven titles in the award-winning I Was There series. Her books have been translated into nine languages, and she has won the Orbis Pictus Award, the Mr. Christie’s Book Award, the Science in Society Book Award and the Information Book Award. Shelley is the long-time fiction editor at Groundwood Books and has edited more than a dozen Governor General’s Award-winning titles. She teaches creative writing at Vermont College of Fine Arts, in the MFA program in writing for children and young adults.

Events:

Workshop 2: Speed Dating: Pitch your Book/Idea to Publishers, Agents and Editors