Charis Cotter

Charis Cotter is an award-winning writer and storyteller. She has worked extensively in schools telling Newfoundland ghost stories and encouraging students to collect local ghost stories from their communities. In 2013 she published The Ghosts of Baccalieu, a book of traditional ghost stories by students from Tricon Elementary in Bay de Verde. She reviews childrens books for the National Reading Campaign, Quill and Quire, Canadian Childrens Book News, and Atlantic Books Today. Charis continues to entertain children and adults with her ghost storytelling and writing workshops at schools, community centres and book festivals across Canada and the United States. Her latest storytelling presentation, The Ghosts of Grates Cove, is an hour of ghost stories from one of the most haunted places in Newfoundland: Conception Bay North, where she lives. "Born and raised in Newfoundland, Jenny Dwyer has been steeped in the region's culture her entire life. An artist and a teacher, she has received several local honours for her compelling, hyper-realistic artwork. Footsteps in Bay de Verde is her first illustrated book. She lives in Maddox Cove, Newfoundland and Labrador, in a house overlooking the sea."