Whitney Gardner is an author and illustrator from Victoria, British Columbia.

[1] Her young adult novel You're Welcome Universe, which has an Indian, Deaf protagonist, was the winner of the 2018 Schneider Family Book Award.

Her novel Chaotic Good was nominated for a 2019 White Pine Award.

She has a BFA from SUNY Purchase in graphic design and worked as an art teacher and school librarian in the Bronx before moving to Portland, Oregon and then settling in Canada.

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