Allison Mills grew up in the suburbs of Vancouver, where she spent a lot of time reading novels under her desk at school and bickering with her younger brother. As the daughter of a teacher-librarian, Allison had easy access to books of all kinds and developed a deep appreciation for writers like E. Nesbit, Diana Wynne Jones, and Ursula K. Le Guin. She also spent a lot of time scaring herself with spooky stories, a habit that grew into a lifelong fascination with ghosts. She sympathizes with them. As someone who’s both Ililiw/Cree and settler Canadian, Allison knows what it’s like to straddle boundary spaces. This preoccupation with all things ghost-related inspired her first novel, The Ghost Collector.

Despite all her covert in-class reading, Allison did like school quite a bit and now has three master’s degrees, including an MFA in creative writing. She aims to create stories like the ones she loved to read as a kid, but with more kids like her in them. When she’s not writing, Allison works as an academic librarian and archivist.

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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Title: The ghost collector / Allison Mills.Names: Mills, Allison, author.Identifiers: Canadiana (print) 20190070471 | Canadiana (ebook) 2019007051X | ISBN 9781773212951 (softcover) | ISBN 9781773212968 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781773212999 (PDF) | ISBN 9781773212975 (Kindle) | ISBN 9781773212982 (EPUB)Classification: LCC PS8626.I45 G56 2019 | DDC jC813/.6—dc23

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