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Marsha tricked her teachers into thinking she knew how to read until it all caught up with her in grade 4 when she failed the provincial reading exam. Adding insult to injury, they made her repeat the whole year. As the tallest and oldest kid in the class, she didn’t want to be seen learning to read with little skinny books, so she taught herself how to read by taking out the fattest book in the children’s section of the Brantford Public Library — Oliver Twist.

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Marsha tricked her teachers into thinking she knew how to read until it all caught up with her in grade 4 when she failed the provincial reading exam. Adding insult to injury, they made her repeat the whole year. As the tallest and oldest kid in the class, she didn’t want to be seen learning to read with little skinny books, so she taught herself how to read by taking out the fattest book in the children’s section of the Brantford Public Library — Oliver Twist.

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Humber Calliope Mentorship Award and Ukr Cdn Woman of Influence

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 She kept on renewing it for a whole year.Reading that book was a turning point in her life. She decided that she loved reading big fat fiction, and wanted to write it too. She devoured novels by the gallon.

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 She kept on renewing it for a whole year.Reading that book was a turning point in her life. She decided that she loved reading big fat fiction, and wanted to write it too. She devoured novels by the gallon.

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Her grade 10 English teacher sent her to the vice principal’s office because she asked too many questions in class. She was placed in enriched English as punishment and loved every minute of it. She took a degree in English at Western University in London Ontario. She needed a language option to complete her degree but she wasn’t very good in French so she stupidly signed up for Russian. Everyone else in Russian class was a native speaker and Marsha didn’t even know the alphabet.

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She made herself flash cards and practiced each morning on the bus as she went to school. She got the lowest mark in the class, but she did pass!Upon graduating, she backpacked around Europe, and then took the first job she could get when she got home: selling industrial supplies. She was the first woman in Canada to sell industrial supplies. 

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She made herself flash cards and practiced each morning on the bus as she went to school. She got the lowest mark in the class, but she did pass!Upon graduating, she backpacked around Europe, and then took the first job she could get when she got home: selling industrial supplies. She was the first woman in Canada to sell industrial supplies. 

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Marsha taught herself how to design grinding wheels, recommend drills and so on and gained the reputation of being “the cutting tool expert of Southwestern Ontario.”While selling industrial supplies was interesting, Marsha never forgot her first dream, which was to become an author. 

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Marsha taught herself how to design grinding wheels, recommend drills and so on and gained the reputation of being “the cutting tool expert of Southwestern Ontario.”While selling industrial supplies was interesting, Marsha never forgot her first dream, which was to become an author. 

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She went back to school and got her Master’s degree in library science, figuring this would help her with research techniques. She worked as a librarian for a brief time, but then turned her hand to writing.She wrote a big fat novel and got 100 rejections for it. She set that book aside and wrote Silver Threads.

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She went back to school and got her Master’s degree in library science, figuring this would help her with research techniques. She worked as a librarian for a brief time, but then turned her hand to writing.She wrote a big fat novel and got 100 rejections for it. She set that book aside and wrote Silver Threads.

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  Expecting to be rejected 100 times as well, she sent it out a dozen publishers all at once. Within two weeks, three publishers had already approached her.That book was published in 1996.A year later, she went back to that big fat 100-times rejected novel, tore it apart, and rewrote it bit by bit. It ultimately became five separate books: The Hunger (Dundurn, 1999), Nobody’s Child (Dundurn, 2003), Daughter of War (Fitzhenry & Whiteside 2008), Aram’s Choice (Fitzhenry & Whiteside 2006) and Call Me Aram (Fitzhenry & Whiteside 2009).Marsha’s had a book out pretty much every year since 1996. Her books seem to follow a general theme — they’re nearly all about young people plunged in the midst of war or oppression. She is best known for her WWII trilogy, Stolen Child, Making Bombs for Hitler, and Underground Soldier. These books are available in many countries, have been translated into different languages and have won lots of awards.

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  Expecting to be rejected 100 times as well, she sent it out a dozen publishers all at once. Within two weeks, three publishers had already approached her.That book was published in 1996.A year later, she went back to that big fat 100-times rejected novel, tore it apart, and rewrote it bit by bit. It ultimately became five separate books: The Hunger (Dundurn, 1999), Nobody’s Child (Dundurn, 2003), Daughter of War (Fitzhenry & Whiteside 2008), Aram’s Choice (Fitzhenry & Whiteside 2006) and Call Me Aram (Fitzhenry & Whiteside 2009).Marsha’s had a book out pretty much every year since 1996. Her books seem to follow a general theme — they’re nearly all about young people plunged in the midst of war or oppression. She is best known for her WWII trilogy, Stolen Child, Making Bombs for Hitler, and Underground Soldier. These books are available in many countries, have been translated into different languages and have won lots of awards.

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Marsha’s had a book out pretty much every year since 1996. Her books seem to follow a general theme — they’re nearly all about young people plunged in the midst of war or oppression. She is best known for her WWII trilogy, Stolen Child, Making Bombs for Hitler, and Underground Soldier. These books are available in many countries, have been translated into different languages and have won lots of awards.

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Marsha’s had a book out pretty much every year since 1996. Her books seem to follow a general theme — they’re nearly all about young people plunged in the midst of war or oppression. She is best known for her WWII trilogy, Stolen Child, Making Bombs for Hitler, and Underground Soldier. These books are available in many countries, have been translated into different languages and have won lots of awards.

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