
Maureen Garvie grew up in Kingston, Ontario and moved to New Zealand in 1971. Returning to Canada in 1983, she worked as a writer and editor for the Kingston Whig-Standard. She has taught writing and editing at Queen's University and is an editor for the Journal of British Studies and a copy editor with McGill-Queen's University Press. She is the author of four YA novels and a mystery, as well as several non-fiction books.