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Sheree Fitch (children’s author, poet, and novelist) was born 3 December 1956 in Ottawa, Ontario, the oldest of three children. Her father, an RCMP officer originally from Nova Scotia, was stationed on Parliament Hill at the time of her birth; her mother is from Sussex, New Brunswick. When Fitch was nine months old, her family moved to Miramichi, New Brunswick, where she lived until the age of three. From the Miramichi, Sheree and her family moved to Moncton, where she lived for ten years before moving to Fredericton. She graduated from Fredericton High School in 1974 and was named valedictorian of her graduating class. She remained in Fredericton until she was thirty-seven but moved to Washington, DC, in 2001 with her husband, Gilles Plante, a technical supervisor of US operations of the CBC. She still has a cabin in Nova Scotia.

In 1974, Fitch entered a two-year nursing program but withdrew a month into it when she realized nursing was not the right career for her. In 1987 she graduated with a BA from St. Thomas University. That same year her first book, To

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