Erin Silver is an award-winning children’s author and freelance writer. Her books for children include Proud to Play: Canadian LGBTQ+ Athletes Who Made History, Rush Hour: Navigating Our Global Traffic Jam (Blueberry Award winner), Sitting Shiva (Ontario Library Association Best Pick, Sydney Taylor Book Award Honor, Vine Award finalist, TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award finalist), Good Food, Bad Waste: Let’s Eat for the Planet (Finalist, 2024 AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books), Mighty Scared: The Amazing Ways Animals Defend Themselves (nominated for the Richard Allen Chase Memorial Award, shortlisted for the 2025-26 Hackmatack Children’s Choice Book Award), In It To Win It: Sports and the Climate Crisis (ALA best sustainability themed book 2024 and Green Earth Book Award for Children’s Non-Fiction 2025), All Consuming: Shop Smarter for the Planet (Green Earth Book Award Honor, nominated for the Sharon Fitzhenry Award for Canadian Children’s Non-Fiction, shortlisted for the 2025-26 Hackmatack Children’s Choice Book Award) and Plant Attack!: The Fascinating Ways Flora Defends Itself (Forest of Reading Silver Birch Express Award Nominee). Several additional nonfiction titles about plants, animals and climate change are forthcoming. Erin is a sought-after speaker at schools, libraries and conferences. Her journalism work has appeared in a range of major magazines and newspapers including Owl magazine, Good Housekeeping, The Globe and Mail and The Washington Post. She also writes for The Royal Gazette (Bermuda), Costco Connections magazine and TanenbaumCHAT’s Chatter magazine. She has an MFA in creative nonfiction and a postgraduate journalism degree. For more information, visit her at ErinSilver.ca.