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The author of the powerful young adult fantasy novel, When Night Eats the Moon, is Joanne Findon,
Celtic scholar and university lecturer. She has had a fascination for Stonehenge since she first
saw photographs of it as a child. "I have returned [to Stonehenge] a number of times, but my
last trip was the most powerful because I walked there from the town of Amesbury. . . . Even
with the fence around it, this monument is still a powerful sight." Joanne Findon is the
author of two picture books: the award–winning The Dream of Aengus, a retelling of an ancient
Irish myth, and Auld Lang Syne, a story of Robert Burns told from the poet's own perspective.
She has also published several short stories for young adults, two of which are based on the
diaries of her eccentric great-grandmother. She lives in Coquitlam, British Columbia, with her
husband, Steve, and daughter, Tamsyn. |