Jessica Dee Humphreys

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Jessica Dee Humphreys
Jessica Dee Humphreys (left) with Michel Chikwanine and General Romeo Dallaire
Jessica Dee Humphreys (left) with Michel Chikwanine and General Romeo Dallaire
OccupationAuthor
NationalityCanadian
Alma materUniversity of Toronto (HonB.A), Queen's University (M.A.)
Notable worksChild Soldier and Waiting for First Light
Website
www.jessicadeehumphreys.com

Jessica Dee Humphreys is a Canadian writer specializing in international humanitarian, military, and children's issues.

Education[edit]

Humphreys received her Honours Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and Linguistics from the University of Toronto in 1997,[1] and the following year received her Master of Arts degree in English Literature from Canada's Queen's University.[2] She then held an internship at the United Nations Development Fund for Women in New York.[3]

Career[edit]

Jessica Humphreys has written two books for children Child Soldier: When Boys and Girls are Used in War[4][5][6] and The International Day of the Girl: Celebrating Girls Around the World (foreword by Rona Ambrose).[7][8]

She has also co-authored three books with Roméo Dallaire The Peace[9] Waiting for First Light: My Ongoing Battle with PTSD[10] and They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children[11][12]

Additionally, Humphreys has contributed chapters to several books, ghostwritten others, and was a regular contributor to the Toronto Star from 2020 to 2023.[13][14]

Awards and recognition[edit]

Humphreys was nominated for the 2022 Ontario Library Association Forest of Reading Award and won the 2021 Skipping Stones Honour Award. She was awarded the 2017 Ontario Library Association's Forest of Reading Red Maple Award for children's non-fiction,[15] the 2015 Best Bet for Junior Non-Fiction from the Ontario Library Association,[16] the 2016 Skipping Stones Honour Award,[17] the Children’s Literature Roundtable of Canada Honour Book of 2016,[18] and starred reviews from the School Library Journal[19] [20] and Quill and Quire,[21] plus nominations for the 2016 Eisner Award Best Publication for Kids,[22] the 2016 Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children’s Non-Fiction,[23] the 2016 Canadian Library Association’s Book of the Year for Children,[24] the Joe Shuster Dragon Award,[25] the 2016-2017 Hackmatack Children’s Choice Book Award,[26] the Young Adult Library Services Association's ‘Great Graphic Novel for Teens 2016’,[27] the American Library Association’s 2016 Notable Children’s Book,[28] and the 2017 Forest of Reading Golden Oak award for non-fiction.[29] Her book Waiting for First Light, was longlisted for the Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction[30] and for CBC's Canada Reads competition.[31] Her work was included in the National Post's list of Best Books of 2016[32] and the 2010 Globe and Mail's Top 100: Non-fiction.[33]

Publications[edit]

  • The Peace, Random House Canada 2024 ISBN 9781039011274
  • Saving the Planet: The Leading Environmentalists (contributor), New Federation House 2023 ISBN 978-1-987832-38-9
  • Waiting for First Light, Random House Canada 2016 ISBN 978-0-345-81443-2
  • Child Soldier, Kids Can Press 2015 ISBN 978-1-77138-126-0
  • To Three and Beyond (contributor), Praeclarus Press 2014 ISBN 978-1-939807-16-8
  • They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children, Vintage Canada 2010 ISBN 978-0-307-35577-5
  • The International Day of the Girl: Celebrating Girls Around the World (Foreword by Rona Ambrose), Kids Can Press 2020 ISBN 978-1-525-30058-5

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Careers, Authors, Honours". Vic Report, Winter 2016. XLVI (2). Victoria University in the University of Toronto: 12. March 27, 2016. Her graduation date is given as "9T7", standing for 1997.
  2. ^ "Jessica Dee Humphreys -- Author -- Kids Can Press". www.kidscanpress.com.
  3. ^ "Progress of the World's Women -- International Museum of Women". exhibitions.globalfundforwomen.org.
  4. ^ "Children's Book Review: Child Soldier". publishersweekly.com. June 29, 2015. Retrieved November 10, 2016.
  5. ^ "Child Soldier: When Boys and Girls are Used in War by Michel Chikwanine & Jessica Dee Humphreys". slj.com. July 20, 2015. Retrieved November 10, 2016.
  6. ^ Gurdon, Meg (24 December 2015). "Children's Books: When Children Truly Ranged Free". Wall Street Journal.
  7. ^ "The International Day of the Girl: Celebrating Girls Around the World". School Library Journal.
  8. ^ "News from the North: November 2017, New CitizenKid Book to Promote International Day of the Girl". PublishersWeekly.com.
  9. ^ "The Peace by Romeo Dallaire and Jessica Dee Humphreys". Penguin Random House Canada.
  10. ^ "Waiting for First Light". www.cbc.ca. Retrieved 12 July 2016.
  11. ^ Nutt, Samantha. "The 2010 Globe 100: Non-fiction". The Globe and Mail.
  12. ^ Lorey, David E., and William H. Beezley. "Genocide, Collective Violence and Popular Memory: The Politics of Remembrance in the Twentieth Century (Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 2002); Roméo Dallaire with Jessica Dee Humphreys." They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children: The Global Quest to Eradicate the Use of Child Soldiers.
  13. ^ "The Star's new Together section a bright light during gloomy times". thestar.com. 31 December 2020.
  14. ^ "Articles by Jessica Dee Humphreys". muckrack.com.
  15. ^ "OLA announces 2017 Forest of Reading winners | Quill and Quire". Quill and Quire. 17 May 2017.
  16. ^ "Ontario Library Association's Best Bets 2015" (PDF).
  17. ^ "The 2016 Skipping Stones Honor Awards".
  18. ^ "Information Book Award Shortlist 2016 - Canadian Children's Book Centre". Canadian Children's Book Centre. 19 April 2016.
  19. ^ "Child Soldier: When Boys and Girls are Used in War by Michel Chikwanine & Jessica Dee Humphreys | SLJ Review". School Library Journal. Retrieved 20 July 2015.
  20. ^ "The International Day of the Girl: Celebrating Girls Around the World". School Library Journal.
  21. ^ "Child Soldier: When Boys and Girls Are Used in War | Quill and Quire". Quill and Quire. 5 August 2015.
  22. ^ "2016 Eisner Award Nominees". Comic-Con International: San Diego. 18 April 2016. Archived from the original on 19 April 2016.
  23. ^ "Finalists Announced for the 2016 Canadian Children's Book Centre Awards - Canadian Children's Book Centre". Canadian Children's Book Centre. 15 September 2016.
  24. ^ "Canadian Library Association | 2015-2016 Press Release for Shortlist Book of the Year for Children". cla.ca.
  25. ^ "THE JOE SHUSTER AWARDS". THE JOE SHUSTER AWARDS.
  26. ^ "2017 Hackmatack Nominees | Annapolis Valley Regional Library". valleylibrary.ca.
  27. ^ "2016 Great Graphic Novels for Teens". Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA). 13 January 2016.
  28. ^ "Notable Children's Books - 2016". Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC). 30 November 1999.
  29. ^ "OLA announces 2017 Forest of Reading nominees | Quill and Quire". Quill and Quire. 20 October 2016.
  30. ^ "Roméo Dallaire on the longlist for 2017 RBC Taylor Prize". www.cbc.ca.
  31. ^ "What is the one book Canadians need now? That's the question at the heart of the next edition of Canada Reads". www.cbc.ca.
  32. ^ "The Complete NP99: The best books of 2016". National Post.
  33. ^ "The 2010 Globe 100: Non-fiction". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 27 November 2010.
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