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Biography
Tanya Lloyd Kyi grew up in Creston, B.C. She began her writing career as a high school poet, producing pages and pages of work that her mother loved and that her best friend religiously archived (possibly for a future blackmailing scheme).
Tanya enrolled in creative writing at the University of Victoria, intending to specialize in poetry. She soon found herself out of place among talented but pale people dressed all in black, who seemed to exist entirely on coffee. She elected to specialize in non-fiction instead. After completing her degree, she worked as a graphic designer for several years before deciding to write full-time.
She now lives in Vancouver with her husband, Min, who claims to be the world’s only Burmese occupational therapist. They have a four-year-old daughter and a two-year-old son.
Book types: juvenile fiction, juvenile nonfiction, YA fiction, YA nonfiction
Guest speaker/presentation information
My presentations focus on ways that real life scenes can become part of non-fiction and fiction. I lead students in an interactive novel-plotting activity, using characters they may have encountered in their own lives.
Presentation geographic range: Vancouver, Coast, Lower Mainland
Presentation audience age groups: grades 4-6, grades 7-8, high school
Published work
Burn: The Life Story of Fire (Young adult non-fiction, Annick, 2007)
Canadian Boys Who Rocked the World (Junior non-fiction, Whitecap, 2007)
True Stories from the Edge: Rescues! (Young adult non-fiction, Annick, 2006)
Jared Lester: Fifth Grade Jester (Junior fiction, Annick, 2006)
The Blue Jean Book (Young adult non-fiction, Annick, 2005)
True Stories from the Edge: Fires! (Young adult non-fiction, Annick, 2004)
My Time as Caz Hazard (Young adult fiction, Orca, 2004)
The Crystal Connection (Junior fiction, Whitecap, 2003)
Truth (Young adult fiction, Orca, 2003)
Canadian Girls Who Rocked the World (Junior non-fiction, Whitecap, 2001)
Awards & recognition
Canadian Boys Who Rocked the World was shortlisted for the Silver Birch 2009 Award.
The Blue Jean Book won the Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature Prize and was shortlisted for the 2007 Red Maple Award.
Truth was shortlisted for the Arthur Ellis Award for Canadian crime writing and the Golden Oak Award for adult literacy.
