Philippa Dowding

Philippa Dowding is a Canadian writer of children's literature, whose novel ''Firefly'' was the winner of the Governor General's Award for English-language children's literature at the 2021 Governor General's Awards.

She has also been a four-time nominee for Forest of Reading's Silver Birch Awards, receiving nods in 2017 for ''Myles and the Monster Outside'' and in 2020 for ''Oculum''. Provided by Wikipedia