Whitney Gardner

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Whitney Gardner
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Occupation(s)Author, illustrator

Whitney Gardner is an author and illustrator from Victoria, British Columbia. [1] Her young adult novel You're Welcome Universe, which has an Indian, Deaf protagonist, was the winner of the 2018 Schneider Family Book Award. Her novel Chaotic Good was nominated for a 2019 White Pine Award. [2] [3] Gardner is represented by Charlie Olsen of Inkwell Management. [4] Her first graphic novel Fake Blood received a starred review from Kirkus Reviews and was called "a dazzling debut". [5]

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Personal life

Gardner grew up in New York. She has a BFA from SUNY Purchase in graphic design and worked as an art teacher and school librarian in the Bronx before moving to Portland, Oregon and then settling in Canada. [6] [7] [8] She is married and she and her husband have two pugs named Gouda and Fig. [9] She plays ukulele. [1]

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  1. 1 2 "Whitney Gardner". Teenreads. Retrieved 2019-01-06.
  2. ↑ "Awards & Grants". Schneider Family Book Award. 2018-12-01. Retrieved 2019-01-06.
  3. ↑ "Interview with Whitney Gardner about You're Welcome, Universe". Disability in Kidlit. 2017-03-03. Retrieved 2019-01-06.
  4. ↑ "Rights Report: Week of November 15, 2021". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2021-12-25.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  5. ↑ "FAKE BLOOD by Whitney Gardner , Whitney Gardner". Kirkus Reviews . 2016-11-11. Retrieved 2019-01-06.
  6. ↑ Gardner, Whitney. "Whitney Gardner on about.me". about.me. Retrieved 2019-01-06.
  7. ↑ Stauffer, Jessica (2017-03-16). "An Indies Introduce Q&A With Whitney Gardner". the American Booksellers Association. Retrieved 2019-01-06.
  8. ↑ "Learn to Draw with Whitney Gardner, Author-Illustrator of Fake Blood : The Children's Book Review". The Children's Book Review, Book and Ebook Reviews of the Best Kids' Books. 2018-09-04. Retrieved 2019-01-06.
  9. ↑ Gardner, Whitney (2018). Fake blood. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers. p. 336. ISBN   978-1-4814-9556-1. OCLC   1019837453.


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