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I joined The Writers’ Union of Canada because I am a poet and poets are orphans in our culture. I felt that the Union would provide me with a family of writers and a strong voice for our mutual concerns.
Member Profile
Andrea Curtis
Andrea Curtis writes books for adults and young people.
Andrea's first YA novel was published in spring 2018 by Orca. Inspired by the true story of a Georgian Bay shipwreck, it's called Big Water. Her new nonfiction children's book is Eat This! How Fast Food Marketing Gets You to Buy Junk (and how to fight back). It's a followup to What's for Lunch? How Schoolchildren Eat Around the World (both from Red Deer Press).
Her latest book for adults is The Stop: How the Fight for Good Food Transformed a Community and Inspired a Movement (2013), written with Nick Saul. It was published in Canada, the US and UK. The Stop was a bestseller and won the Taste Canada Food Writing award and Heritage Toronto Award of Merit. It was also nominated for the Toronto Book Award and the OLA Evergreen Award.
Andrea's critically acclaimed creative nonfiction book Into the Blue: Family Secrets and the Search for a Great Lakes Shipwreck (Random House) won the Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction.
Her writing has also appeared in Toronto Life, Cottage Life, Chatelaine, Canadian Geographic, Explore, This Magazine, Utne Reader, The Globe & Mail, The National Post, Today’s Parent, and Lost magazine.
Before beginning to write full-time, Andrea was an editor at Toronto Life, Shift and editor-in-chief of This magazine, one of Canada’s oldest progressive magazines about politics and culture.
Andrea is a graduate of McGill University in Montreal where she studied history.
