Caroline Adderson grew up in Sherwood Park, Alberta, which at the time was surrounded by farms and acreages. The housing development she lived in was right on a golf course, buffered by woods where she and her friends ran wild and only came home to eat.
When she finished high school, Caroline left home to spend a year traveling around Canada with the youth program Katimavik, doing all kinds of jobs like sheep farming and carpentry and working in a French-language community radio station. She came to Vancouver to attend university and, except for a year spent in New Orleans and another in Toronto, she has lived in Vancouver ever since.
Caroline began writing for adults first. When her son was five she wrote some simple stories based on the adventures they shared. Now she writes for readers of all ages, every day, even though her son broke his promise that he’d always be seven. She also teaches at Simon Fraser University and the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity.
For fun, Caroline reads, gardens, paints, cooks and travels. She is interested in almost everything except watching television. Her advice to young writers is to read, read, read and write, write, write.
Caroline also writes books for grown up readers: