Erin Noteboom is a physicist turned poet turned children’s novelist, whose honours include the TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award, the CBC Literary Award for poetry and a Governor General’s Award. She has previously published two volumes of poetry, Ghost Maps: Poems for Carl Hruska (2003) and Seal Up the Thunder (2005), as well as a memoir, The Mongoose Diaries: Excerpts from a Mother’s First Year (2007). Her novels for young readers (published under her married name, Erin Bow) are Plain Kate, Sorrow’s Knot, The Scorpion Rules, The Swan Riders, and the middle-grade novel Stand on the Sky, which was the winner of the 2020 Governor General’s Award for Young People’s Literature.