Kathleen Margaret "Kit" Pearson CM (born April 30, 1947) is a Canadian writer and winner of numerous literature awards.
Pearson wrote the linked novels The Sky Is Falling (1989), Looking at the Moon (1991), and The Lights Go on Again (1993), published in 1999 as The Guests of War Trilogy, and Awake and Dreaming (1996), which won the 1997 Governor General's Award for English-language children's literature.
[2] Pearson was born in Edmonton, Alberta and spent her childhood between that city and Vancouver, British Columbia.
In 1975, she began her Library degree at the University of British Columbia and took her first jobs in that field in Ontario.
Pearson moved to Victoria, British Columbia, in 2005, where she lives with her partner Katherine Farris.