Maggie de Vries is a writer, editor and teacher who lives in Vancouver. Her recent children’s novel, Chance and the Butterfly, is a B.C. Book Prize Honour Book and is also included on the Ontario Library Association’s list of Best Bets. She is also the author of two picture books: How Sleep Found Tabitha, which is illustrated by Sheena Lott, and the bestselling Once Upon a Golden Apple, published by Penguin, which she co-authored with Jean Little and which was illustrated by Phoebe Gilman.