ABOUT ANNA

Anna Rosner is a Toronto teacher and award-winning author who has published essays, short-story fiction, numerous scholarly articles and four books for middle-grade readers. Anna’s first novel, Eyes on the Ice (Groundwood, 2024) is a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection, and a finalist for six awards in the US and Canada.
Dedicated to promoting her love for words, Anna has taught language and literacy to children and adults ages five to seventy-five. In her youth, she worked as an aide for children with deafness and Autism Spectrum Disorder. Anna is the director of Books with Wings, which provides new, quality picture books for Indigenous children who reside in isolated Canadian communities. She holds a PhD 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 quatre livres 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), et Last Year with Maddy, en 2026. Les oeuvres d’Anna sont toutes primées. Elle est aussi titulaire d’un doctorat en littérature française de l’Université de Toronto. Anna est aussi directrice de l’organisation à but non-lucratif Books with Wings.