Sharon Stewart grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia, and was a charter student at Simon Fraser University before doing graduate work at University College, London, and the University of Toronto. She has a B.A. and M.A. in History, and worked as an editor in educational publishing. She lived for a year in Harbin, China, while teaching ESL. During that time, she and her late husband, Roderick Stewart, wrote a series of articles about their experiences which were published in newspapers across Canada. She later spent a year in Pamplona, Spain.Stewart is the author of seven novels for young readers, several of them historical fiction. In 2005, she won the Silver Birch Award (Ontario Library Association) for Raven Quest, the first volume of a trilogy about ravens and wolves. She has also written a biography of Louis Riel, and a book of short stories; she is the co-author, with Roderick Stewart, of Phoenix: The Life of Norman Bethune. She currently lives in Toronto, Ontario.
