Sue Farrell Holler is the Governor General's Award-nominated author of the YA novel Cold White Sun as well as the middle-grade novel Lacey and the African Grandmothers and several picture books. Sue grew up on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, where she wrote avidly to more than a hundred pen pals across North America. She later channelled her passion for writing into journalism studies at the University of King's College in Halifax. Sue has lived in the Northwest Territories and today resides in Grande Prairie, Alberta.