Melanie Florence is the acclaimed author of Missing Nimâmâ, which won the TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award, the OLA Golden Oak Award and was a finalist for the 2017 First Nation Communities READ award. Her most recent novel, Autumn Bird and the Runaway, was co-written with Richard Scrimger, and has been shortlisted for the OLA Red Maple, the Manitoba Young Readers’ Choice, the Snow Willow and the Red Cedar Awards. Visit her at https://www.melanieflorence.com/.