Andrea Curtis writes books for adults and young people that have been published around the world.
Her most recent works are the nonfiction picture books The Story and Science of Hope, Loop de Loop, and the ThinkCities series of books about cities and sustainability, all from Groundwood. She is also the author of the picture book Barnaby (Owlkids) and the YA novel Big Water (Orca), inspired by the true story of a Georgian Bay shipwreck. Her other children's books include Eat This! How Fast Food Marketing Gets You to Buy Junk (and how to fight back) and What's for Lunch? How Schoolchildren Eat Around the World (both from Red Deer Press).
Her books for adults include The Stop: How the Fight for Good Food Transformed a Community and Inspired a Movement, 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 and Today’s Parent.
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. She lives in Toronto with her family.
