
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, architecture, 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. Andrea also writes books for young people and teaches creative writing. She lives in Toronto with her family.
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Andrea’s essay on finding the wild in the city—inspired by one of her recent kids’ books—appeared in Toronto’s The Globe and Mail. Read it here. You can find out more about her other new books for young readers on her children’s book site. The third in the Groundwood ThinkCities series called City Streets are for People is available now! Watch for City of Neighbors, the fourth installment of the series coming out in May 2023.

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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