CITY/TOWN: Victoria, BC & Calgary, AB

DATE OF BIRTH: April, 1967

PLACE OF BIRTH: Calgary

ARRIVAL IN BRITISH COLUMBIA: 2000

EMPLOYMENT OTHER THAN WRITING: various communications jobs in museums, parks, and arts organizations

AWARDS: shortlisted for Red Cedar Award, 2002.

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

Reading the Rocks: A Biography of Ancient Alberta (Red Deer Press, 2003)

Discoveries in Palaeontology Series:

Pachyrhinosaurus: The Mystery of the Horned Dinosaur (Heritage House, 2006)
Ornithomimus: Pursuing the Bird-Mimic Dinosaur (Raincoast Books, 2002)
Albertosaurus: Death of a Predator (Raincoast Books, 1999)

BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS: Monique Keiran writes about the plants and animals of western Canada while working works with the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Drumheller, Alberta. She is a founding director of the Calgary-based science-education theatre company, Evergreen Theatre. She divides her time between Calgary and Victoria.

[BCBW 2006]