Maggie de Vries is a writer, editor, teacher, and the award-winning author of several children's books, including How Sleep Found Tabitha and Chance and the Butterfly. Her adult nonfiction title Missing Sarah was shortlisted for a Governor General's Award and won the first annual George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in BC Literature for 2004. She lives in Vancouver with her husband and two cats in a house overlooking the Fraser River.