Erin Silver

I’m an award-winning children’s author and freelance writer/editor with more than 20 years of experience. My books for children include Rush Hour: Navigating Our Global Traffic Jam (Blueberry Award winner), Sitting Shiva (Ontario Library Association Best Pick, Sydney Taylor Book Award Honor, Vine Award finalist, TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award finalist), Good Food, Bad Waste: Let’s Eat for the Planet (nominated for a Red Cedar Award, 2024 Green Earth Book Award, 2024 American Association for the Advancement of Science/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books finalist, and the Science Writers and Communicators of Canada Book Awards), Mighty Scared: The Amazing Ways Animals Defend Themselves (nominated for the Richard Allen Chase Memorial Award), In It To Win It: Sports and the Climate Crisis (American Library Association Sustainability Roundtable a best sustainability book pick for 2024 and winner of the Green Earth Book Award for Children’s Non-Fiction 2025), All Consuming: Shop Smarter for the Planet (Green Earth Book Award Honor Book 2025, nominated for the Sharon Fitzhenry Award for Canadian Children’s Non-Fiction), I Am Jewish and Plant Attack!: The Fascinating Ways Flora Defends Itself (Forest of Reading Silver Birch Express Award Nominee, OLA Best Bets List 2025, Junior-Nonfiction). Several additional nonfiction titles are forthcoming. I frequently speak at schools, libraries and conferences. My journalism work has appeared in a range of major magazines and newspapers including Owl magazine, Good Housekeeping, The Globe and Mail and The Washington Post. Corporate clients include The Royal Gazette (Bermuda), Costco Connections magazine and TanenbaumCHAT’s Chatter magazine. I have an MFA in creative nonfiction and a postgraduate journalism degree. For more information, please visit me at ErinSilver.ca. I am represented by Amy Tompkins at the Transatlantic Agency.