ABOUT ANNA


Anna Rosner is a Toronto teacher and award-winning author who has published essays, short-story fiction, numerous scholarly articles and three books for middle-grade readers (with a fourth book on the way). Her biography Journeyman: The Story of NHL Right Winger Jamie Leach (Great Plains, 2020), was a finalist for the High Plains Book Awards, and her second biography, My Left Skate (Great Plains, 2022) won the Red Cedar Award and is a finalist for the 2024-25 Willow Awards. It was released in both English and French (Le garçon qui voulait jouer au hockey, translated by André Gagnon, Editions Hurtubise). Anna’s first novel, Eyes on the Ice (Groundwood, 2024) is a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection and a finalist for the 2025-26 Diamond Willow Awards.

Dedicated to promoting her love for words, Anna has taught language and literacy to children and adults ages five to seventy-five. She is the director of Books with Wings, which provides new, quality picture books for Indigenous children who reside in isolated Canadian communities. Anna holds a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in Early Modern French Literature.

Anna Rosner est une enseignante et auteure torontoise qui a publié des essais, nouvelles, articles scolaires et deux biographies pour enfants. Le garçon qui voulait jouer au hockey (traduit par André Gagnon) est sorti en octobre 2022. Son premier roman, Eyes on the Ice, est sorti en 2024 (Groundwood Books). Les oeuvres d’Anna sont toutes primées. Elle est aussi titulaire d’un doctorat en littérature française de l’Université de Toronto.