Christina Kilbourne
Christina Kilbourne was born in southwestern Ontario and spent her elementary and high school years in Muskoka, a resort area two hours north of Toronto. She graduated with an Honours B.A. degree in English Literature and Anthropology from the University of Western Ontario and completed her M.A. degree in Creative Writing and English Literature at the University of Windsor, Ontario. Christina previously published five books of adult, young adult, and juvenile fiction, and has had two of her novels translated into Ukrainian and Portuguese. Her book, Dear Jo, won three young reader’s choice awards in Canada in the same year - one in Manitoba, one in Saskatchewan, and one in British Columbia. It was also nominated for a New York State young reader’s choice award. She currently lives near Bracebridge, Ontario.
Books by Christina Kilbourne
Reviews
"Kilbourne’s deceptively simple prose employs shifts of memory and point of view, place and time, to build a narrative structure that supports a gentle, sweetly
moving climax. [The] story weaves disparate voices into a convincing and increasingly seductive narrative whole."
~ THE GLOBE AND MAIL
"Kilbourne is a talented writer, with a facility for language and an intriguing story."
~ QUILL & QUIRE
“Versatile Muskoka author Christina Kilbourne has written another fine novel about closely entwined human dilemmas.”
~ MUSKOKA MAGAZINE
"In The Roads of Go Home Lake, the inner strength and personal growth of Winnie from abused daughter and wife to a self-sustaining confident person
serves both as personal and inspirational and reveals how effects of generational violence, illiteracy and racism can be overcome."
~ MUSKOKA MAGAZINE
"Kilbourne mines memory and voices in ways that are startlingly similar to Margaret Laurence, that Canadian touchstone of small-town feeling. She is a promising writer who gives her characters a
respectful fragility."
~ UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO QUARTERLY
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