Angela Narth

Who is Angela Narth?

Angela Narth is a Canadian writer and freelance literary reviewer. She is best known for her work in children's fiction.

She was born in Sudbury, Ontario to the late Joseph and Selina LeBlanc and was raised in Gatineau until she moved west at the age of 23. She currently resides in Winnipeg and writes fiction as Angela K. Narth, but has also published non-fiction under the pseudonym Angela Murphy. She has a Master's Degree in Educational Psychology from the University of Ottawa and a Bachelor's Degree in Special Education and Anthropology from the University of British Columbia.

Following successive careers as teacher, school administrator, and university lecturer, Angela wrote her first children's book Simon With Two Left Feet, which was published in 2000. Widely celebrated, the book was on the best-seller list for 47 consecutive weeks. It was short-listed for the McNally Robinson Book of the Year for Young People in 2001, and received a Bronze International Moonbeam Award for Children's Fiction in 2007.