Colleen Nelson
An author and elementary school teacher, Colleen
Nelson earned her Bachelor of Education from the University of
Manitoba in her hometown of Winnipeg. Her novels in The Harvey Stories include
the multi-award-winning Harvey ComesHome and Harvey Holds His Own,
which was a finalist for the Governor General's Award. She is also the author
of Sadia, winner of the 2019 Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Award, Blood
Brothers, selected as the 2018 McNally Robinson Book of the Year for Young
People, and the picture book Teaching Mrs. Muddle. Colleen writes daily
in between appearances at hockey rinks and soccer fields in support of her two
sports-loving sons.