Natalie Hyde is the author of both fiction and non-fiction for middle-grade and young adult readers. Her works include Saving Armpit, I Owe You One, and Cryptic Canada, and her books have received award nominations in both Canada and the US. Hyde is her family’s genealogist — the “keeper of the bones” — and has traced her father’s family back to the 1700s in Canada. She currently lives in Flamborough, Ontario.