Andrea Curtis is an award-winning writer whose work has been published around the world. She writes in many different categories, including creative nonfiction, memoir, essays, fiction and books for younger readers. Her subject matter is wide and varied but includes nature writing, design, literature, food, history and women’s health. Her first book, Into the Blue: Family Secrets and the Search for a Great Lakes Shipwreck won the Edna Staebler Creative Nonfiction Award. The Stop: How the Fight for Good Food Transformed a Community and Inspired a Movement, co-written with Nick Saul, was an international bestseller and also won several awards. In addition, Andrea writes books for young people and teaches creative writing. She lives in Toronto with her family.
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Andrea’s essay about cormorants and the battle for creature coexistence is available now in Cottage Life magazine. She also wrote about how climate change is altering her family’s generations-long battle with beavers for Cottage Life. It’s read aloud on the Cottage Life podcast here.
Her latest book for kids, Loop de Loop: Circular Solutions for a Waste-Free World, has been honoured with the Blueberry Changemaker Award and was shortlisted for the Green Book Award. It is published by Groundwood Books.
You can read her essay on building community and finding a city of neighbours in Canada’s Globe and Mail here. She wrote an essay for the same newspaper about finding the wild in the city here. You can learn more about Andrea’s other new books for young readers on her children’s site.
The wreck of the J.H. Jones, which Andrea wrote about in her first book, Into the Blue, was discovered on the bottom of Georgian Bay by a dedicated group of shipwreck hunters. See their extraordinary video footage here.
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