Robin Stevenson

Robin Stevenson is a Canadian author of thirty books for kids and teens. Her writing has been translated into several languages, and published in more than a dozen countries. Robin's books regularly receive starred reviews, have won the Silver Birch Award, the Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize and a Stonewall Book Award, and have been finalists for the Governor General's Awards, the Lambda Literary Award, and others. She writes both fiction and non-fiction, for toddlers through teens.

Robin Stevenson was born in England and immigrated to Canada as a child. She grew up in Ontario and studied at McMaster University in Hamilton before completing a master's degree in social work at Wilfrid Laurier University in Kitchener. Robin worked as a social worker and counselor for 10 years and in 2022, she received Wilfrid Laurier university's alumna of the Year award.

Stevenson writes well-researched nonfiction about history and activism, including LGBT issues and abortion rights, and about historical and contemporary figures known for their contributions to the world in areas such as social justice, leadership, innovation, and athletics. She also writes picture books, including ''Pride Puppy'', and middle grade novels, such as ''Record Breaker'' and ''The Summer We Saved the Bees''. She has written a number of contemporary young adult novels, the most recent of which, ''When You Get the Chance'', was co-written with Nova Scotia based author Tom Ryan. School Library Journal gave it a positive review: “Readers will appreciate the tender depiction of growing apart and breakups, and the concept of nonmonogamous relationships is also explored without stigma…. A solidly entertaining trip through Canada’s queer history, and one family’s difficult secrets. Recommended for fans of lightly adventurous realistic fiction.”

Stevenson identifies as queer. Provided by Wikipedia