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Kari Maaren is a Toronto writer whose first novel, WEAVE A CIRCLE ROUND, was released in 2017. WEAVE A CIRCLE ROUND is a sort of old-fashioned kids' fantasy about a girl named Freddy whose attempts to make it through high school unnoticed are derailed by a pair of bizarre new neighbours and their unfortunate tendency to disrupt the laws of physics. Some fun descriptions from critics are: "[has] the potential to become a timeless classic" (Kirkus), "an ambitious, intricate, joyful coming-of-age tale" (Publishers Weekly), "wildly imaginative" (School Library Journal), and "audaciously realistic fantasy" (The Globe and Mail).
Maaren is just getting started on her writing career, but she has also been a cartoonist for a while. She has a completed webcomic, WEST OF BATHURST, and a continuing one, IT NEVER RAINS. WEST OF BATHURST is available as a ridiculously expensive print collection, but it's also still online for free, so that's probably the way to go. Maaren has, as well, produced a couple of independent albums, BEOWULF PULLED MY ARM OFF and EVERYBODY HATES ELVES. The titles tell you pretty much all you need to know about those.
When she is not working frantically on her second novel or fighting valiantly with her computer, which hates her, Maaren teaches undergraduate English classes at Ryerson University.
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