Monique Polak is the author of more than 30 books for young readers and the three-time winner of the Quebec Writers’ Federation Janet Savage Blachford Prize for Children’s and Young Adult Literature (formerly called the QWF Prize for Children’s and Young Adult Literature). Monique is an active freelance journalist whose stories appear across the country. She recently retired after a long and happy career teaching English and humanities at Marianopolis College, and now devotes herself to writing full-time. Monique lives in Montreal.