KV Johansen biography

K.V. Johansen's has M.A. degrees in Medieval Studies and in English Literature. She was born in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
Her YA novel Nightwalker was a VOYA "Best Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror" selection (April 2007) and won the 2008 Ann Connor Brimer Award. Torrie and the Pirate-Queen won the 2006 Lilla Sterling Award from the Canadian Author's Association. Torrie and the Firebird was one of the Ontario Library Association's Top Ten Children's Books of 2006, while The Cassandra Virus was shortlisted for the Canadian Association of Children's Librarians 2007 Book of the Year for Children Award. She held the 2001 Eileen Wallace Research fellowship in Children's Literature from the Wallace Collection at UNB and received the 2004 Frances E. Russell Award from IBBY Canada for research into children's literature. Her research has been published in book form as Beyond Window Dressing: Canadian Children's Fantasy at the Millennium. In 2000 she received a Lieutenant-Governor's Early Childhood Literacy Award.

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