Jessica Dee Humphreys
Jessica Dee Humphreys is a Canadian writer and researcher specializing in international humanitarian, military, and children's issues. Co-author of two books with Roméo Dallaire (Waiting for First Light: My Ongoing Battle with PTSD[1] and They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children[2][3]), she has also published a graphic novel for children, Child Soldier: When Boys and Girls are Used in War.[4][5][6] She is currently writing a new book on global girls' rights and the UN International Day of the Girl Child, to be published in 2020.[7] As an author, she has been collected by libraries,[8] and her work has appeared in periodicals such as The Globe and Mail,[9] the New York Times,[10] the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action magazine,[11] and The Beaver, Canada's History Magazine.[12]
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Jessica Dee Humphreys (left) with Michel Chikwanine and General Romeo Dallaire | |
Occupation | Author |
Nationality | Canadian |
Alma mater | University of Toronto (HonB.A), Queen's University (M.A.) |
Notable works | Child Soldier: When Boys and Girls are Used in War Waiting for First Light (with Romeo Dallaire) |
Website | |
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Education
Humphreys received her Honours Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and Linguistics from the University of Toronto in 1997,[13] and the following year received her Master of Arts degree in English Literature from Queen's University.[14] She then held an internship at the United Nations Development Fund for Women in New York.[15]
Awards and recognition
Humphreys's work was included in the National Post's list of Best Books of 2016[16] and the 2010 Globe and Mail's Top 100: Non-fiction.[17] Her work has been awarded the 2017 Ontario Library Association's Forest of Reading Red Maple Award for children's non-fiction,[18] the 2015 Best Bet for Junior Non-Fiction from the Ontario Library Association,[19] the 2016 Skipping Stones Honour Award,[20] the Children’s Literature Roundtable of Canada Honour Book of 2016,[21] and starred reviews from the School Library Journal[22] and Quill and Quire,[23] plus nominations for the 2016 Eisner Award Best Publication for Kids,[24] the 2016 Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children’s Non-Fiction,[25] the 2016 Canadian Library Association’s Book of the Year for Children,[26] the Joe Shuster Dragon Award,[27] the 2016-2017 Hackmatack Children’s Choice Book Award,[28] the Young Adult Library Services Association's ‘Great Graphic Novel for Teens 2016’,[29] the American Library Association’s 2016 Notable Children’s Book,[30] and the 2017 Forest of Reading Golden Oak award for non-fiction.[31] Her latest book, Waiting for First Light, was longlisted for the Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction[32] and for CBC's Canada Reads competition.[33]
Publications
- Co author with Roméo Dallaire Waiting for First Light, Random House Canada 2016 ISBN 978-0-345-81443-2
- Co author with Michel Chikwanine Child Soldier, Kids Can Press 2015 ISBN 978-1-77138-126-0
- To Three and Beyond (contributor), Praeclarus Press 2014 ISBN 978-1-939807-16-8
- Co author with Roméo Dallaire They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children, Vintage Canada 2010 ISBN 978-0-307-35577-5
References
- "Waiting for First Light". www.cbc.ca. Retrieved 12 July 2016.
- Nutt, Samantha. "The 2010 Globe 100: Non-fiction". The Globe and Mail.
- Lorey, David E., and William H. Beezley. "Genocide, Collective Violence and Popular Memory: The Politics of Remembrance in the Twentieth Century (Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 2002); Roméo Dallaire with Jessica Dee Humphreys." They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children: The Global Quest to Eradicate the Use of Child Soldiers.
- "Children's Book Review: Child Soldier". publishersweekly.com. June 29, 2015. Retrieved November 10, 2016.
- "Child Soldier: When Boys and Girls are Used in War by Michel Chikwanine & Jessica Dee Humphreys". slj.com. July 20, 2015. Retrieved November 10, 2016.
- Gurdon, Meg (24 December 2015). "Children's Books: When Children Truly Ranged Free". Wall Street Journal.
- "News from the North: November 2017, New CitizenKid Book to Promote International Day of the Girl". PublishersWeekly.com.
- "Humphreys, Jessica Dee". worldcat.org. Retrieved November 10, 2016.
- Humphreys, Jessica Dee (18 March 2005). "Bands of gold offer rich tales previously untiold" (Page A18). Globe and Mail.
- Humphreys, Jessica Dee (May 11, 2014). "Wedding Album". New York Times.
- Humphreys, Jessica Dee (April 1, 2015). ""Normal or Radical?"". World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action. 13 (1): 9.
- Humphreys, Jessica Dee (1 October 2004). ""Remembering D-Day"". The Beaver, Canada's History Magazine. October/November: 57.
- "Careers, Authors, Honours". Vic Report, Winter 2016. Victoria University in the University of Toronto. XLVI (2): 12. March 27, 2016. Her graduation date is given as "9T7", standing for 1997.
- "Jessica Dee Humphreys -- Author -- Kids Can Press". www.kidscanpress.com.
- "Progress of the World's Women -- International Museum of Women". exhibitions.globalfundforwomen.org.
- "The Complete NP99: The best books of 2016". National Post.
- "The 2010 Globe 100: Non-fiction". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 27 November 2010.
- "OLA announces 2017 Forest of Reading winners | Quill and Quire". Quill and Quire. 17 May 2017.
- "Ontario Library Association's Best Bets 2015" (PDF).
- "The 2016 Skipping Stones Honor Awards".
- "Information Book Award Shortlist 2016 - Canadian Children's Book Centre". Canadian Children's Book Centre. 19 April 2016.
- "Child Soldier: When Boys and Girls are Used in War by Michel Chikwanine & Jessica Dee Humphreys | SLJ Review". School Library Journal. Retrieved 20 July 2015.
- "Child Soldier: When Boys and Girls Are Used in War | Quill and Quire". Quill and Quire. 5 August 2015.
- "2016 Eisner Award Nominees". Comic-Con International: San Diego. 18 April 2016. Archived from the original on 19 April 2016.
- "Finalists Announced for the 2016 Canadian Children's Book Centre Awards - Canadian Children's Book Centre". Canadian Children's Book Centre. 15 September 2016.
- "Canadian Library Association | 2015-2016 Press Release for Shortlist Book of the Year for Children". cla.ca.
- "THE JOE SHUSTER AWARDS". THE JOE SHUSTER AWARDS.
- "2017 Hackmatack Nominees | Annapolis Valley Regional Library". valleylibrary.ca.
- "2016 Great Graphic Novels for Teens". Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA). 13 January 2016.
- "Notable Children's Books - 2016". Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC). 30 November 1999.
- "OLA announces 2017 Forest of Reading nominees | Quill and Quire". Quill and Quire. 20 October 2016.
- "Roméo Dallaire on the longlist for 2017 RBC Taylor Prize". www.cbc.ca.
- "What is the one book Canadians need now? That's the question at the heart of the next edition of Canada Reads". www.cbc.ca.