Born and raised in London, Ontario, Jocelyn graduated from York University and has studied writing at St. Lawrence College and the Humber School for Writers. She always wanted to be a writer, and won her first award at age nine, for poems entered in the local Hobby Fair. Jocelyn writes for both teens and adults, and now lives in Toronto and on Vancouver Island.

Jocelyn’s YA books Getting a Life and Seraphina’s Circle and her tween series River Boy, Beyond River Boy and Way Beyond River Boy have been translated into Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish and German for Stabenfeldt’s GIRL:IT book clubs.

Jocelyn is a member of:

The Writers’ Union of Canada

Canadian Society of Children’s Authors, Illustrators & Performers

Children’s Writers & Illustrators of BC

Canadian Children’s Book Centre

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