Laura Best
Laura Best has had over forty short stories published in literary magazines and anthologies. Her first young adult novel, Bitter, Sweet , was shortlisted for the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People. Her middle grade novel Flying with a Broken Wing was named one of Bank Street College of Education's Best Books of 2015, and its follow-up, Cammie Takes Flight , was nominated for the 2018 Silver Birch Award. She published a prequel to the Cammie series, The Family Way ,...See more
Laura Best has had over forty short stories published in literary magazines and anthologies. Her first young adult novel, Bitter, Sweet , was shortlisted for the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People. Her middle grade novel Flying with a Broken Wing was named one of Bank Street College of Education's Best Books of 2015, and its follow-up, Cammie Takes Flight , was nominated for the 2018 Silver Birch Award. She published a prequel to the Cammie series, The Family Way , in Spring 2021, followed by the standalone historical middle-grade novel A Sure Cure for Witchcraft , in Fall 2021. Her first novel for adults, Good Mothers Don't , was published in 2020. She lives in East Dalhousie, Nova Scotia, with her husband, Brian. Visit lauraabest.wordpress.com. See less
