Susan Juby

Juby was born in Ponoka, Alberta,[1] and later moved to Smithers, British Columbia at the age of six.[1]

Juby initially attended fashion design school, but dropped out after several months.[1] She subsequently started a degree in English literature at the University of Toronto,[1] transferring to the University of British Columbia after two years.[1] After graduating she became an editor at a book publishing company called Hartley and Marks.[1]

She began her first book as a journal which she wrote on the bus on the way to work and at a local coffee shop. After struggling to find a publisher the young adult publisher Thistledown published her first book Alice, I Think in 2000.[2]

She then completed a master's program in publishing at Simon Fraser University in 2001.[1] After that publication she got noticed by HarperCollins which in turn offered her a contract for three books. Her second book Miss Smithers was published in 2004.[2] To complete the trilogy of Alice, I Think all under one publisher, the original book was bought by HarperCollins and at the beginning of the book was changed before being published again. Her third book under this contact was Alice McLeod: Realist at Last, published in 2005.[2]

In 2016, she won the Stephen Leacock Award for her novel Republic of Dirt.[3]

On February 22, 2020,[4] Juby read excerpts from two as-yet-unpublished works at the Vancouver Island Regional Library's Nanaimo Harbourfront branch. At Your Service is Juby's first crime novel for adults. Me 3 is a middle-grade novel that addresses the #MeToo movement from a child's perspective.[5]

Juby is an environmental rights activist in her community.[6] She is a creative writing professor at Vancouver Island University, in Nanaimo, British Columbia.[7]

• Alice, I Think (2000)
• I'm Alice (Beauty Queen?) (2004) (Published as Miss Smithers in the United States)
• Alice Macleod: Realist at Last (2005)
• Another Kind of Cowboy (2007)
• Getting the Girl: A Guide to Private Investigation, Surveillance and Cookery (2008)
• Nice Recovery (2010)
• The Woefield Poultry Collective (2011) (Published as Home to Woefield in the United States)
• Bright's Light (2012)
• Republic of Dirt (2015)
• The Truth Commission (2015)
• The Fashion Committee (2017)
• At Your Service (Upcoming)[8]
• Me 3 (Upcoming)[9]

• Official website