LUANNE ARMSTRONG

PhD Student

Luanne Armstrong is an award winning writer and scholar. She teaches Creative Writing at Langara College in Vancouver, and other places. She has published novels, poetry and children's books. Her books have won many awards. Her most recent children's book Jeanie and the Gentle Giants was nominated for the Sheila Egoff BC Book Prize; for the Canadian Library Association Book of the Year; for the Ontario Library Association Silver Birch Award; and for the Red Cedar Award in BC. It was also named by McNally Robinson Booksellers in Winnipeg as one of their top ten all time best children's books. Her most recent novel, The Bone House was shortlisted for the Canadian Sunburst Award for Science Fiction and the Relit Prize for Fiction. Her research work concerns narrative inquiry, autobiographical writing and memoir.