Karys McEwen is a school librarian, education advisor for Melbourne Writers Festival, and project officer for Reading Australia and the Victorian Association for the Teaching of English (VATE). She is a member of the Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Victorian Branch committee, and the Committee on Standards for the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA). She is passionate about the role libraries and stories play in the lives of young people, and she writes the Substack newsletter ‘I Read A Lot’. Her two middle grade novels, All the Little Tricky Things and The Paperbark Tree Committee, were published by Text Publishing.

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