Jacqueline Guest

Jacqueline Guest is the author of more than a dozen novels for young readers, many of them award winners, including two previous Coteau Books titles – The Outcasts of River Falls and Ghost Messages.

Jacqueline’s works are well-known for having main characters who come from different ethnic backgrounds including First Nations, Inuit or Metis. In 2013, she was awarded the Indspire Award in recognition of her outstanding career achievement. Created in 1993 in conjunction with the UN’sInternational Decade of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, the Indspire Awards represent the highest honour the Indigenous community bestows upon its own achievers.

Alberta born and raised, Jacqueline Guest lives and writes in a cabin in the pine woods of the Rocky Mountain foothills. Robert’s brothers in The Comic Book War are based on her father and his two brothers.