Rachna Gilmore


Rachna Gilmore is a Canadian children's writer. Her picture book A Screaming Kind of Day won the 1999 Governor General's Award for Children's Literature.

Background

Born in India, Gilmore emigrated from New Delhi to London as a teenager and studied biology at University of London. After emigrating to Canada in the mid 1970s, she studied education of the University of Prince Edward Island. In 1990 Gilmore and her family moved to Ottawa. She wrote literature for children and young adults, mainly, but also fiction for adults.

Works

;Picture books
;Children’s novels
;Early readers
;Non-fiction
;Adult fiction