Jared Lester, Fifth-Grade Jester

Tanya Lloyd Kyi is from Vancouver, BC

Tanya Lloyd Kyi began her writing “career” as a poet in high school, producing pages and pages of really bad poems that her mother adored. Her love of writing led to the University of Victoria, where she took creative writing and English. Tanya’s early writing jobs were as a newspaper reporter and brochure writer for the government. She also worked as a dishwasher, busgirl, server (her parents own a restaurant), an aerobics instructor, and, most recently, a graphic designer, before returning to writing full-time.

Besides writing, Tanya is involved in a women’s running group, knitting circle, and ultimate Frisbee team. She also enjoys cooking and reading, and would like to add gardening to her list of hobbies but is spending most of her time with her daughter.

Tanya would like to write more fiction for young adults and has ideas for future non-fiction projects. She’d also like to have a dog someday. Tanya, who grew up in the town of Creston, B.C., now lives in Vancouver with her husband Min, who claims to be the world’s only Burmese occupational therapist, and their daughter.

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