Penny Draper

Penny Draper is the author of six previous Disaster Strikes! novels, including the most recent, Day of the Cyclone. Her novels in this series have received numerous awards and nominations in competitions across the country. Terror at Turtle Mountain, the first book in the series, was a finalist for the Silver Birch Young Readers’ Choice Award in Ontario, as well as Saskatchewan’s Diamond Willow Award and the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Writing for Young People.

Penny Draper is a retired bookseller, and a storyteller who lives in Victoria, BC. Originally from Toronto, she received a degree in Literature from Trinity College, U of T, and, on the side, attended the Storytellers’ School of Toronto. For many years, she shared tales as a professional storyteller at schools, libraries, conferences, festivals, and on radio and television. She has told stories in an Arabian harem and from inside a bear’s belly – but that is a story in itself?