J.E. Barnard

JE Barnard is a crime fiction author from Calgary who has spent a quarter of a century writing award-winning children’s literature and short fiction. She is best known as the author of the “Maddie Hatter Adventure” novels and “The Falls Mystery” series of novels. For her work, she has won several awards including the Saskatchewan Writers Guild Award, the Bony Pete, and the Dundurn Unhanged Arthur. “Maddie Hatter and the Gilded Gauge,” the second novel of the “Maddie Hatter” series was the Alberta Book of the Year for Children and Youth. Her novels have made the shortlist for the UK Debut Dagger and twice for the Prix Aurora and won the Great Canadian Story Prizes three times.