Biography
Alison Baird is a
resident of Oakville, Ontario, Canada, and a graduate of Trinity College,
University of Toronto, where she earned her Honours B.A. in English and her
M.A. degree.
As an author she had
an early start, publishing her first poems when she was 12. In 1994 her first book, The Dragon's Egg, was published by
Scholastic Canada: it was a national bestseller and a Regional Winner of the
Silver Birch Award (a children's choice award). It is now featured on school curricula across the country. The Hidden World and White as the
Waves: A Novel of Moby Dick, both published in 1999, were Canadian
Children’s Book Centre "Our Choice" selections, and White as the
Waves was shortlisted for the IODE Violet Downey Book Award.
The Wolves of
Woden, the prequel to The
Hidden World, followed in 2001 and was featured on Resource Links
Magazine’s “Best of 2001” list. Baird’s
adult fantasy novel, The Stone of the Stars, and its two sequels were
recently sold to Warner Aspect through the Sternig & Byrne literary
agency.
Baird's short
fiction has appeared in On Spec magazine, a Canadian periodical of
original science fiction and fantasy for adults. Her story "Dragon Pearl" received an Honourable Mention
in the 1996 edition of The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror published by
St. Martin's Press. Another short
story, "Moon Maiden," appeared in the acclaimed young adult anthology
What If. . .? Amazing Stories
Selected by Monica Hughes (Tundra Books, 1998), which was an ABA Kids’ Pick
of the Lists for 1998 and was featured on the New York Public Library’s
Recommended List. "Moon
Maiden" has since been reprinted in two Canadian school readers, and is
available in an audio version from Prentice Hall.
PUBLISHED
WORKS
BOOKS
The Dragon’s Egg Scholastic Canada 1994
White as the
Waves Tuckamore Books 1999
The Hidden
World Penguin Canada 1999
The Wolves of
Woden Penguin Canada 2001
The Witches of
Willowmere Penguin Canada 2002
The Warding of
Willowmere Penguin Canada 2004
The Wyrd of
Willowmere Penguin Canada (forthcoming)
The Stone of
the Stars Warner Aspect 2004
The Empire of
the Stars Warner Aspect 2004
The Archons of
the Stars Warner Aspect 2005
SHORT FICTION
“Changeling
Child” On Spec Summer 1993
“The Dragon Door” On Spec Fall
1993
“Dragon Pearl” On Spec Winter
1994
“The Empty Sky” On Spec Winter
1995
“Moon Maiden” “What
If. . .? Amazing Stories”
Tundra Books
1998
“The Doom of
Planet D” Wonder Zone: Stardust
Trifolium 2001