Raquel Rivera

RAQUEL RIVERA is a writer and performer. Among many accolades for her publications, Raquel has won the Quebec Writers’ Federation Prize for Children’s and YA Literature for her novels Yipee’s Gold Mountain and Orphan hwak, and her novel Tuk and the Whale was shortlisted for the prize. Her book Arctic Adventures: Tales from the Lives of Inuit Artists, illustrated by Jirina Marton, was named a USBBY Outstanding International Book. Raquel lives in Montreal, Quebec.