About the Author
"Wild Talent: a novel of the supernatural" is Kernaghan's eighth book in the historical fantasy genre. "The /Snow Queen" ((Thistledown, 2001)) won the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Award, the Aurora, for best speculative novel in English, and "The Alchemist's Daughter" ((Thistledown 2004)) was shortlisted for the Sheila Egoff Prize for Children's Literature. EILEEN KERNAGHAN lives in New Westminster, British Columbia.