Glen Downey

Glen Downey is an award-winning children’s author, graphic novelist, reviewer, and academic, currently teaching in the English Department at The York School in Toronto. He is the founder of Comics in Education, a website dedicated to the use of visual narrative in the K-12 curriculum. Glen has written more than 120 books for young people across a variety of genres including graphic novels and theme-based classroom books aimed at reluctant readers. He was writer and series editor for Graphic Poetry, winner of the 2010 Textbook Excellence Award from the Text and Academic Authors Association, and the 2011 Teachers Choice Award for Children’s Books from Learning Magazine. Since 2003, he has written for Rubicon Publishing in Oakville, authoring titles for award-winning series such as Boldprint, Timeline, The 10, Boldprint Graphic Readers and Graphic Novels, Interface, Remix, Issues 21, and Boldprint Inquiry. His works have been distributed by Scholastic, Oxford, Harcourt, Pearson, Brightpoint Literacy, and Althouse Press. For more than a decade, Dr. Downey was a regular reviewer for PW Comics World, the graphic novel division of Publishers Weekly, and served on the jury of the annual Critics’ Poll that chooses the Graphic Novel of the Year. His reviews have also appeared in The Globe and Mail and The Beat: The News Blog of Comics Culture.

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