Terry Griggs is a Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 author. Her book of short stories Quickening was a finalist at the 1991 Governor General's Awards

1991 Governor General's Awards

Each winner of the 1991 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit received $10,000 and a medal from the Governor General of Canada. The winners were selected by a panel of judges administered by the Canada Council for the Arts.-Fiction:Winner:...

 and she won the Marian Engel Award

Marian Engel Award

The Marian Engel Award was a Canadian literary award, presented each year from 1986 to 2007 by the Writers' Trust of Canada in memory of the writer Marian Engel...

 in 2002. She presently lives in Stratford, Ontario

Stratford, Ontario

Stratford is a city on the Avon River in Perth County in southwestern Ontario, Canada with a population of 32,000.When the area was first settled by Europeans in 1832, the townsite and the river were named after Stratford-upon-Avon, England. It is the seat of Perth County. Stratford was...

, but has occasionally lived on Manitoulin Island since her youth. Her Cat's Eye Corner Trilogy ( Cat's Eye Corner; The Silver Door; Invisible Ink) for Young Adults were bestsellers. Her slacker-cozy involving reluctant detective Chellis Beith was published by Biblioasis in 2009, and was a Globe & Mail Best of the Year Selection. A new work for young adults, Nieve, will be published by Biblioasis in April 2010.

External links

• Random House: Rogue's Wedding / Terry Griggs profile, accessed 3 July 2006
• IUIEN: Terry Griggs profile, accessed 3 July 2006
• 2009 Interview at books site Pickle Me This