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S. Lesley Buxton studied acting at Mountview Theatre School in London, England, and has an MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of King’s College in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Lesley’s first book, One Strong Girl, won the inaugural Pottersfield Prize for Creative Nonfiction. Her essays and short stories have appeared in leading Canadian magazines and anthologies such as Love Me True, Today’s Parent, Reader’s Digest, This Magazine, Hazlitt, The Fiddlehead, and The New Quarterly. She is also the co-author, along with Sue Harper, of the books in the Time to Wonder series of family-oriented guidebooks highlighting regional museums in British Columbia. Lesley lives in Penticton, British Columbia. Sue Harper is a retired secondary school teacher who has a BSc in psychology, an MA in English language and literature, and an MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of King’s College in Halifax. She has published ten educational textbooks for the Ontario secondary English curriculum and has written three titles targeting reluctant readers as part of The Ten series published by Scholastic. Her writing can also be found in a number of magazines, including NUVO, Okanagan Life, Okanagan Arts, Kelowna’s Daily Courier – Sunday Edition, and BC Food and Wine Trails. She is also the co-author, with S. Lesley Buxton, of the books in the Time to Wonder series of family-oriented guidebooks highlighting regional museums in British Columbia. Sue lives in Kelowna, British Columbia.
