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Our Mentors

Joanna Hathaway
Joanna Hathaway is not mentoring this year, but has mentored Young Adult
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Joanna Hathaway
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Joanna owes her love of books to her great-grandfather. His poignant memoirs about life as a teenage soldier in the First World War inspired her, at a young age, to enter the complex and provocative realms of history—and she hasn’t left since. Born in Montréal, Canada, she grew up on the doorstep of New York City, then spent her teen years riding horses through the forests of Southwestern Ontario. Her debut novel, DARK OF THE WEST (Tor Teen, 2018), is the first in a WWII-infused fantasy series of forbidden love and deadly revenge.

Favorite Books

The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
All Quiet On The Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
The Sunne in Splendour by Sharon Kay Penman
Red Rising by Pierce Brown

Years Mentored
2017