[4] Her DNA was found on serial killer Robert Pickton's property in August, 2002.

During that time, she served on the board of PACE Society (Prostitution Alternatives Counseling and Education)[5] and coordinated a book club for inner-city women.

[1] Since 2003, she has taught a yearly graduate course in writing, publishing, and the book trade in the Masters in Children’s Literature program at UBC.

In 2015, Rabbit Ears won the Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize.

[2] In 2007, Tale of a Great White Fish: A Sturgeon Story won the Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature Prize ,[10] won the 2006 ASPCA Henry Bergh Children’s Book Award[11] and was a Silver Birch Express Honour Book.