Erin Bow is a physicist turned poet turned children’s novelist, whose honors include the TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award, the CBC Poetry Prize, and a Governor General’s Literary Award for Young People’s Literature – Text. Her novels for young readers include Stand on the Sky, Plain Kate, Sorrow’s Knot, The Scorpion Rules, and The Swan Riders. Erin’s day job is writing about things like black holes and quantum gravity at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.