Meet Rina
- a storyteller who spins adventures - some made up, and others inspired by real life. She writes all day and sometimes her ideas wake her up in the middle of the night! When she's not busy juggling words, you might find her secretly baking up a storm or feeding her fishies in her backyard.
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Rina Singh is an award-winning Canadian Children’s Author and Spoken Word coach. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from Concordia University, Montreal, and a teaching degree from McGill University. She has written many critically acclaimed books for children and she is drawn to real life stories about social justice and the environment. Her books have been translated in many languages.
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Grandmother School, (Orca Books) which won the BC & Yukon Prize for literature affirms the life-changing power of education. A Garden of Grenades, (Greystone Books) told in free verse, reimagines our troubled world through the lens of love and compassion. (Coming in 2023) 111 Trees, (Kids Can Press) has won many awards including the the Social Justice literature award.