Kari Trogen
Kari Trogen is a Canadian writer of literary coming-of-age stories as well as a middle grade fantasy author. Her work plays with reimagined folklore and history, meditating on girlhood, grief, romance, and memory.
Kari grew up in a dance, theatre, and fairy tale-rich home in Edmonton, Alberta, with her mother and sisters, spending summers in Eastern Canada.
Kari earned an honours degree in English literature in her hometown and at Royal Holloway, University of London. She holds an MA in English and Creative Writing from the University of New Brunswick, where she wrote a play based on the life and journals of Anne of Green Gables author L.M. Montgomery.
Her co-authored novel Margaret and the Moth Tree (written with her sister Brit Trogen) won the 2013 Silver Birch Award for middle grade fiction from the Ontario Library Association, voted on by over 100,000 young readers.
She lives in East Toronto with her husband and two children.