Jennifer Gold won her first creative writing award at nine years old for a short story about Bigfoot and a group of alligators sponsored by the Lipton Soup company. After studying psychology, law, and public health at York, McGill, and Harvard Universities, she decided to return to her first love, fiction, while on maternity leave with her son. Her first novel, Soldier Doll, was published by Second Story Press in 2014 and was selected as part of the Toronto Public Library’s “Word Out” teen reading program and as a Bank Street Best Children’s Book of 2015. Most recently, it was nominated for the 2016 OLA Forest of Reading White Pine Award. Jennifer’s work has appeared in Canadian national newspaper The Globe and Mail, and she was once on the radio discussing how much she hates camping.  She lives in Toronto, where she writes, chases after her two spirited offspring, consumes too much chocolate, and maintains a day job practicing law.