Martine Leavitt

Martine Leavitt (born 1953) is a Canadian-American writer of young adult novels and a creative writing instructor.

Biography Leavitt was born in 1953 in Taber, Alberta. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Calgary and a Master of Fine Arts from Vermont College. She lives with her husband in High River, Alberta.

Martine Leavitt writes novels for young adults. Heck Superhero (2004) was a Kirkus Reviews Editor's Choice and ALA Best Books for Young Adults selection. Keturah and Lord Death (2006) was a finalist for the National Book Award for Young People's Literature, a Junior Library Guild Premier Selection, My Book of Life by Angel (2012) was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and won the Canadian Library Association Young Adult Book Award. It was also a Horn Book Fanfare book, a Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) Choice,

She taught creative writing at Vermont College of Fine Arts, a short-residency MFA program, where she served as the Katherine Paterson Endowed Chair from 2022 to 2023.

Selected works

Novels

The Dragon's Tapestry (1992) Prism Moon (1993) The Taker's Key (1998) The Dollmage (2001) Tom Finder (2003) Heck Superhero (2004) Keturah and Lord Death (2006) My Book of Life by Angel (2012) Blue Mountain (2014) Calvin (2015) Buffalo Flats (2023) Whenever You Are (2026)

Awards Year !! Title !! Award Category Result Ref.

Young Adult Literature

Young Adult Literature

12 and up

White Pine Award

The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books Blue Ribbon — 2013 Canadian Library Association Young Adult Book Award —

English-language children's literature